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Chef Nti, My Modern African Kitchen.
'It’s important to me that my first cookbook celebrates maize, not only as an essential part of South African culinary heritage but also as one of the few equalisers in our beautiful and diverse country. I want to instil a sense of pride in what we grew up eating.'
Drawing inspiration from, Soweto, Mama D and her gran's cooking, Chef Nti realised that in order to talk to a new generation she had to reinvent these flavours in a fresh, innovative way. Chef Nti - My Modern African Kitchen embraces this concept, celebrating food that is proudly South African.
SIZE 204 X 270 MM • PAGES 168 • SOFT COVER • ISBN 978-1-928429-20-3
Dine With Neo @
Let's ban boring! Neo Nontso, Instagram sensation and queen of having fun in the kitchen, will take you through the basics and show you how cooking for the whole family can be budget friendly and lip-smacking good! Filled with Neo's most requested recipes and her top tricks and treats, @dinewithneo also features her go-to grocery list, bake vs grill option, perks of lockdown, and recipes from some of the most watched food videos in South Africa. From corn dogs to oxtail,every single one is a must try. Pasta la vista baby! ’Food and family went hand in hand when I was a child. In my gran’s house, the kitchen was the heart of the home. It was where people would eat, cry, get shouted at and apologise. If anyone was in trouble, we’d deal with it in the kitchen; if someone was happy or had good news, we’d hear it in the kitchen. Out of the chaos and the discipline grew my love affair with cooking.’
SIZE 200mm x 260mm • PAGES 196 • SOFT COVER • ISBN 978-1-998956-03-6
Foodies of South Africa, 100 recipes, 100 creators, 100 million views.
These recipes have not just captured the hearts and stomachs of South Africa, they have smashed the social media scene with over 100 million views! Each view, like, comment, and share is a story of connection, a moment of communal “mmm” that resonates through kitchens across the nation. But what makes this familiar yellow kitchen companion so unique? Each page comes alive with a QR code that takes you on a virtual journey into kitchens across South Africa. We live in a country with a melting pot of rich flavours, cultures, and personalities, this book is dedicated to uniting us through food - allowing us to experience familiar Foodies Favourites with a new perspective, through the eyes of our fellow South Africans.
SIZE 210mm x 255mm • PAGES 252 • HARD COVER • ISBN 978-1-998956-13-5
Love & Lobola
From first meals together and cooking for the parents to hosting friends and date night, along with the food served over the lobola weekend, and more, this cookbook tells a story that goes beyond ingredients or techniques.
‘This is not just a cookbook – it’s a love story you can taste, where every recipe becomes a chapter in Neo’s journey from first meeting to forever. With rare intimacy and honesty, she invites us into moments so personal they feel almost sacred, reminding us that food is how we say “I love you” without words. This is a story of love, told through fire, flavour and feeling. And once you step into it, you’ll never cook (or love) the same way again.’ Anele Mdoda
SIZE 215 X 275 MM • HARD COVER • ISBN 9978 -1 -997442-05-9
Memory Against Forgetting
Memory Against Forgetting, by Ranjith Kally
"He captured iconic scenes, such as his portrait Umkumbane, which has come to symbolise the shimmering jazz age of African townships in the 1950s. When Miriam Makeba returned to Maseru, Lesotho, for a concert for black South Africans at the height of apartheid, Kally too ventured to Lesotho and returned home with a remarkable image of an exiled singer poised between joy and heartbreak. And in a series of unflinching portraits, he documented with probity the horror of the forced removals in Natal. In short, the wider appreciation of his contribution to our struggle for dignity needs to remembered and fully embraced for current South Africans intent on honouring their past." David Goldblatt
SIZE 210 x 285mm HARD COVER, EXTENT 192 pgs. • ISBN 978-0-992216-96-2
Mud Chic
While photographing the book, Shack Chic, which focussed on the lifestyle and inspiration found in the shack-lands of Cape Town, the most frequent reply to my question, ‘Where is your home?’ was ‘Transkei’, I felt the need to explore ‘home’, to understand this attachment that the urban shack dwellers feel for their rural roots. – Craig FraserHere life is lived in tune with nature and in cognisance of community. It is here in every inch of a traditional rural dwelling that we find the ideological and decorative footprint of Xhosa culture. SIZE 280 X 280 MM • PAGES 192 • HARD COVER • ISBN 978-0-620-35392-9
The Lazy Makoti’s Guide To The Kitchen.
Mastering the kitchen can seem pretty intimidating, especially when confronted with Instagram and TV chefs who seem to do everything with ease while, at the same time, relating a cute anecdote on camera. I’ve found that what most people want is simply to learn to prepare delicious and visually appealing food – the kind that will gain likes on social media – which is what inspired this cookbook. This book was written and compiled with YOU in mind, and takes into consideration all the different occasions a South African kitchen might have to cater for. The recipes use simple ingredients that are probably already in your pantry or fridge, and if not, they’re readily available in all our favourite grocery stores.
SIZE 205mm x 265mm • PAGES 168 • SOFT COVER • ISBN 978-1-928429-13-5