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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South African Culinary Heritage
Chasing him away was the only thing I had power over in
our marriage. I could not control the infidelity, but I could
control his stay or departures, because – in the household –
I was the one with more financial power.
You see, like so many women, I had made the common
mistake of buying a family home for a man, much against
the counsel of some wise women in my life. As a community
nurse in Soweto, I had worked with a colleague who had
been strongly opposed to the notion of women buying
homes for their men, often arguing that this was the
responsibility of the man to find a home for his family. In
her explanation she had argued along this following line, “If
you take away that basic responsibility from a man, you are
taking away everything else that comes with his role as a
husband. It unintentionally emasculates him. An
emasculated man functions from a position of working
against God’s natural order.
“In the natural eye, it looks and feels like your husband is
working against you, criticising, humiliating and
incapacitating you, and even seemingly standing in the way
of whatever good you are doing for the benefit of the family,
including him. “On a deeper level, he is wrestling with who
he really is in the marriage, if not the provider, the leader
and head of the family. His energy and focus are
inadvertently reversed and directed at creating chaos. After
all, the relationship is operating against the order of who the
husband is in the marriage.” The flip side of this, though,
was that – on my side – I had taken over the role when I
had realize that my husband was never going to lead. At
first, it was easy and doable. I made things happen for the
family and we both benefited and seemed to be enjoying the
fruits of my labour, together. But, as time went on, I had
noticed changes in the dynamics of our marriage.
I had stripped him of his manhood and his role!
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