Magdaleen van Wyk
Autore di The Complete South African Cookbook
Sull'Autore
Opere di Magdaleen van Wyk
Kook Suid-Afrikaans 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1942-07-15
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- South Africa
- Luogo di nascita
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Istruzione
- University of Stellenbosch
- Attività lavorative
- Academic
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 11
- Utenti
- 76
- Popolarità
- #233,522
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 23
- Lingue
- 1
Expect traditional South African cooking the way your grandmother’s housekeeper used to do it, when the old “Blue Book” was the kitchen Bible.
You won’t find exotic dishes like giraffe carpaccio or snoek sashimi; forget about fat-free this or carb-free that, about steaming and grilling — our national cuisine is rich, tasty and calorific, saturated in carbohydrates, fats, spices and sugar.
Ideal for both the amateur cook and the professional, the book takes nothing for granted: it includes all the basic recipes for sauces, stocks and pastry, then explains how to combine these into — for example — a cream of waterblommetjie soup. Bredies, biryanis and boboties are covered, together with brief notes about their history, and usual accompaniments.
For the most part, South African dishes are an enticing and unusual collaboration of Eastern fusion with German carnal innovations, married to Victorian excellence. In a word: Yum.… (altro)