A Heritage
Cookbook by Mietha Klaaste
as told by Niël
Stemmet,
Thursday 12 November at 12 noon for 12h30
Buitenverwachting
Restaurant
Guest
speaker Niël Stemmet is a food
writer, photo journalist, consultant and interior designer. He is also a great
storyteller with a passion for heritage food – a topic he writes on for many magazines. He has a unique writing style with a large
following both young and old.
He
will be talking about his book bitter + sweet which has been nominated as one of the top 6
cookbooks in SA for 2015 - Sunday Times and is so much more that a cook book...
"Traditional
country food meets a soul-stirring story of a rural woman, a domestic worker
and nanny, who tells her life story to Stemmet in 29 chapters, reminiscences
that start with her childhood on a farm near Robertson and finish as her
charge, the adolescent son of her employers, leaves the Cape to head to a new
life in the Transvaal.
Mietha Klaaste
was also a keen and talented cook who regarded preparing meals a privilege
rather than a chore. So it seems only right that between the events that
coloured her humble life, she also shares her recipes, wonderful, honest fare
where the simplicity of farm ingredients is never overshadowed by surplus
ingredients or fancy garnishing.
A third element
is Stemmet’s inclusion of carefully selected poems and excerpts that emphasise
the content, physical and spiritual, of the preceding chapter. They come from
diverse sources ranging from the Bible to Lewis Carroll, from Adam Small to
Ingrid Jonker, from Antjie Krog to timeless nursery rhymes."
From
a review by Myrna Robins that appeared in the Saturday Weekend Argus on 19
September 2015 – the full review can be seen http://www.myrnarobins.com/books/book-reviews
Edgar Osojnik has been creating superb menus for this luncheon club so be assured that it will be a mouth watering lunch which will be accompanied by Buitenverwachting’s
outstanding wines. The price is R270 per
person fully inclusive.
Please
telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 or per email sandybailey@telkomsa.net for more information or to
book.
bitter + sweet is published
by Human & Rousseau 2015
