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
Dessert is indeed served! Sadly, such unforeseen incidences
are a common disease in the kitchen restaurant.
On a certain day, amid an intense labour conflict, a company
director went to his office, sat down and said to himself, “I
am not running this business well and I don’t know what to
do. I guess I can either get drunk or pray.”
He had then thought a little longer and had then reflected,
quietly, “Nothing will probably change if I pray. But if I get drunk,
nothing will change either, and I’ll have a hangover. If I pray and
nothing comes of it, I can always get drunk later.”
With this strange logic and tiny seed of faith, he knelt and
prayed. This truism is inspired by Trevor Hudson’s Journey
of The Spirit – Showing Love in The Market Place.
As with this company director, prayer for me had become a
desperate cry for help, and it was not just a theological or
doctrinal undertaking. On that day, when all else had
seemed to have gone wrong, I had prayed because I was
drowning and I had nothing, or had known nothing else to
reach out to. Unlike the company director, I did not have a
private office, so – many a time – the toilet became a safe
spot for me to cry out to God; my sanctuary, so to speak.
I had reached a point of understanding the power of the
Lord’s Prayer and had prayed the prayer, not in the way that
it has been misconstrued, and had come to be taken for
granted; because, generally, people assume that if they say
and recite the words of the Lord’s Prayer, then they are
praying.
I had learned to pray the words with a deep appreciation
that God is my Father, and that, indeed, He is going to
rescue me. Not because I am good, but just like all the main
characters in the history of the Bible, God’s acceptance of
me with all of my shortcomings and miscalculations; and the
Almighty continuing to forgive me, despite my having
messed up my life in various ways.
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