Sunday 25 October 2015

A great story - A beautiful book

                                                                            
                                           






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