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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Eunice Rakhale-Molefe
When you are working together, as a family, you are heavily
dependent on each other’s gifts and talents. You strengthen
each other on your limitations. Often, the dynamics of what
it takes to serve and work for each other are both unknown
and foreign to most families. We find it easy to serve and
work for others. To be able to work efficiently for anybody
you must be able to get and be real with them.
It certainly was not the case in my situation. With the
systems of truth and sincerity not being in place, most of
the family relations and businesses suffer a terrible demise;
and, inevitably, so did mine. We failed to see what we had
in each other and, therefore, missed out on our shared
opportunity of succeeding together. We had everything we
needed, within, and around us; but we had kept looking
outside, and wondered why things were not going well.
Also, we desperately sought for outside counsel and
direction; advice that we had within our own selves; at
home, to be precise. This was simply because we did not see
what we had. As the problems had progressed, our hearts
became more hardened and stubborn, determined to
destroy each other. We became our own enemies;
destroying both our marriage and business.
After the failure of the first restaurant, we went into
business, yet again, but without getting to the root of our
problems. We had – instead – focused more on the
superficial, hoping that the real deep problems would go
away. The business’ problems were symptoms of my
afflicted personal life; and disasters had then ensued, on ad
on, until I had had decided to become “real”. As I became
real and truthful, slowly the real issues came to the fore and
more time and energy was spent on the issues at hand,
without any distortions.
Fast forward to December 2013...
My newly-published Pictorial Coffee Table Cook Book was
being launched in September during Heritage and Tourism
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