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
and being unable to change my circumstances, I was forced
to reexamine my life. I had to go to the root of why things
did not go right in the first place.
I did not listen to my mother’s advice regarding my
marriage. I even got married without her blessing; and,
in doing so, I also married without God’s blessing.
Returning to live at my home, where I had been raised, also
gave me an opportunity to ask for forgiveness from my
mother. The irony of this was that my mother had
completely forgotten about the strike three incidence. In
forgiving me, my mother had to be on God’s side; and she
also had to take us in – both – to help us back, up, onto our
feet. She spent the last year of her life guiding us through
family impartial talks.
For family discussions to be successful, you must be
committed and willing to talk things through. Work at the
myriad disputes when it is easy and also when it is difficult,
as some of these issues take different forms, leaving you
lonely at times, and mostly emotionally and physically
drained. Nevertheless, allow these different life posers to
have their own demands and momentum; go with their
flow. Know that it is part of the process; and, in the end,
tackling the various concerns, as and when these may come,
does bring healing. The family conversations must be led
through Scripture and prayer. If not, they are doomed to
failure.
I need to also mention that, before these family
conversations, I had followed the conventional route of
finding solutions. I had numerous counselling sessions at
different denominations; and I had drowned myself in
several, different prayer groups; and I also went for
hypnotherapy and had self-medicated with over-thecounter
medication. All in vain! It was only when I had really
started “talking” that I began to see progress. First, I had to
learn to talk to God, openly and truthfully, without any
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