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
Failure to address outstanding personal matters, and hoping
that the business will wish them away, is a recipe for the
demise of the business before it could even start. It is more
like prep in the kitchen, before we open for service. In that
particular scenario, the process of addressing personal
matters is tedious and draining, but worthwhile in the long
run.
My husband and I had embarked on intense workshops as
a family when we started the business. Unfortunately, these
workshops were masked with a lot of insincerity regarding
the sin of immorality in our marriage. We never got to the
root of this particular sin of immorality; and, without
realising, we had subconsciously carried the baggage into the
business. To cope with this baggage, I spent my entire life
putting up a façade for things to look perfect.
We looked like a perfect couple, while – inside – our souls
were eaten away by immorality. I had failed to follow the
teachings of the workshops sincerely, myself, because I was
afraid and not ready to face what was going on in my
marriage. I was afraid to face the truth of infidelity in my
marriage, knowing that, once I had confronted this truth, I
would have had to act, even if it had meant getting divorced.
Also, I was afraid to be alone; with myself. I could never see
myself on my own – as an individual – outside my marriage.
Because I also did not know whom I really was, I had
defined myself through the person I was married to,
together with whatever came with that package; the good
and bad. Subsequently, I lost myself and all that I had been
created and meant to be.
This brought a lot of sadness to those who loved me;
particularly my mother and my children. And it made my
elder sister, Monki, angry; especially the fact that I had put
my life in the hands of another human being; and, this, at
whatever cost.
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