SOUTH AFRICAN CULINARY HERITAGE
The book South African Culinary Heritage by Eunice Rakhale, is about local food history and traditions interlaced with family conversations. It illustrates the culinary diversity of Southern African cuisine and some neighbouring countries, comparing the similarities and unique palatable heritages thereof. Written in a conversational style, the book is a handy culinary compilation which will bestow the reader with explorations regarding local African lifestyles history, art, clothing, music and perhaps even some song and dance. For tourists visiting these African countries – possessing a diversity of ethnic cultures, it is a worthy read regarding heritage and of-course African cuisine. A guide which should be included in any tourist’s travel pack and families. It is about a genuine story told with an extraordinary ability that draws parallel between the author’s struggle in the restaurant industry and in her personal life. Ultimately, her passion for food is where she finds solace to learn, heal and grow. Mother Daughter relationships can be extremely complex and Eunice is no exception. In the book, besides a plethora of authentic recipes and history, she shares candidly about her strained relationship with her daughter Mothei Makhetha. Being estranged for seven years, Mothei writes her mother a letter, in a desperate cry for help, which she hopes will begin the healing process. After receiving the letter, circumstances of her life took Eunice back home to her mother in Moletsane, Soweto. This happens while she is researching her culinary book authenticating the recipes through the help of her mother. This handing down of recipes from her mother gets them connected on a very deep level, thus, creating compassion and trust they never had. In desperation Eunice seeks counselling from her own mother to try and mend the relationship with her daughter. Their journey is one of true and sincere conversations handed down from one generation to another, around family meals and prayerful family meetings.
The book South African Culinary Heritage by Eunice Rakhale, is about local food history and traditions interlaced with family conversations. It illustrates the culinary diversity of Southern African cuisine and some neighbouring countries, comparing the similarities and unique palatable heritages thereof. Written in a conversational style, the book is a handy culinary compilation which will bestow the reader with explorations regarding local African lifestyles history, art, clothing, music and perhaps even some song and dance. For tourists visiting these African countries – possessing a diversity of ethnic cultures, it is a worthy read regarding heritage and of-course African cuisine. A guide which should be included in any tourist’s travel pack and families.
It is about a genuine story told with an extraordinary ability that draws parallel between the author’s struggle in the restaurant industry and in her personal life. Ultimately, her passion for food is where she finds solace to learn, heal and grow.
Mother Daughter relationships can be extremely complex and Eunice is no exception. In the book, besides a plethora of authentic recipes and history, she shares candidly about her strained relationship with her daughter Mothei Makhetha. Being estranged for seven years, Mothei writes her mother a letter, in a desperate cry for help, which she hopes will begin the healing process. After receiving the letter, circumstances of her life took Eunice back home to her mother in Moletsane, Soweto. This happens while she is researching her culinary book authenticating the recipes through the help of her mother. This handing down of recipes from her mother gets them connected on a very deep level, thus, creating compassion and trust they never had. In desperation Eunice seeks counselling from her own mother to try and mend the relationship with her daughter.
Their journey is one of true and sincere conversations handed down from one generation to another, around family meals and prayerful family meetings.
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herself and knew, clearly, what she wanted and needed, and
was now seeing things clearly, and simply. My mother now
had an admirable sense of peace, and had also began to
connect to God in a way that she never knew she could. She
basically had what I could summarize as a “Spiritual
Transformation”.
Untidiness, like any evil, is something we like to cling to.
Yet, we know that, like any evil, clutter, dirt and dark places
without light are not healthy for us; nevertheless, we get
upset and rebellious when cleanliness is brought into our
lives. My mother took the plunge, though, and I salute her
for that. Getting started might be overwhelming; so one
should consider the following information before you begin
de-cluttering and cleansing your space. In an average twobedroom,
one-bathroom home, the average clutter per
room is as follows:
For the storage rooms, garage, outside rooms and garden
shed – 37%;
Kitchen – 25%;
Bedrooms – 20%;
Dining room and lounge – 10%;
Bathroom – 5%;
Behind the doors and entrance – 3%.
The kitchen, which is part of the living space, is the heart of
any home. It is around food that our true emotions emerge,
setting the tone of the flow of the mood and temperament
of the household. It is in the heat of the kitchen that our
personalities melt, and where our feelings get unfrozen;
meaning that it is the site of the unfinished, stale discussions
that have been left in the fridge for a long time, where these
begin to smell; and where past speculations come crawling
out of the drawers. Therefore, the kitchen is an ideal place
to start decluttering; to get the emotions out of the way,
before you get to the core of the clutter. The 37% of space
that has been mentioned above, is the space in which you
are going to have to deal with archived matters of your life
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