A great recipe book is one that you find yourself stroking because it completes the sensory experience. Just too look is not enough. Quivertree Publications books are almost always of this quality and when you combine this with well known food writer and stylist, Phillappa Chefitz you get a simply outstanding result in South Africa Eats. It is a culinary journey that reveals who we are and how we got to some of the delicious and varied meals that we as South Africans so enjoy. Kitke, green fig preserves, sweet dried fruit pickle, Nunzia’s caponata, Plum tart and Cape Chicken Curry is what links us, and make us unique, in the many different cultures that make our country delicious!

Not surprising that it was a winner at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. It’s a book whose pages should become worn from use but should also always be displayed as a timeless thing of beauty.