African Cooking (Foods of the World) [Hardcover]

Laurens and the Editors of Time-life Books Van Der Post (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Time-life Books; Presumed First Edition edition (1970)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000IYHRDG
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #414,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #55 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > African

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Cookbook of African Recipes, August 10, 2000

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Ed Gibbon www.congocookbook.com - See all my reviews

This review is from: African Cooking (Hardcover)

Laurens Van der Post, a South African of European ancestry, lived and traveled in most of Africa and wrote a variety of fiction and non-fiction, much of it concerning Africa. "Recipes: African Cooking (Foods of the World)" contains primarily recipes from Western, Eastern, and Southern Africa, with a great deal of anecdote and observation, which Van der Post writes very well. The book documents not only African gastronomy, but also the optimism of newly independent Africa of the 1960's. Chapters include: "My Continent: A Personal View"; "The Ancient World of Ethiopia"; "New Cuisines for New Nations" [West Africa]; "In the Highlands of East Africa"; "The World of Portuguese Africa" [Angola, Mozambique]; "East and West Meet at the Cape" [South Africa--Asian influenced]; "Great Cooking from Rich Farms" & "On the Track of the Voortrekkers" [South Africa--European influenced]. Nicely illustrated in the Time-Life coffee-table book style. (Important! This publication consists of two parts: a large hardcover book containing most of the text but only a few recipes in each chapter, and a small spiral-bound book containing all of the 120 recipes.)

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars recipe folder, August 12, 2008

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Radon (Kzoo, Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: African Cooking (Hardcover)

excellent book. the bobotie recipe is sublime, but when you order make sure the addition recipe folder is included. mine was not :(. there are some recipes in the book itself, but many more in the folder

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very good, December 27, 2008

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This review is from: African Cooking (Foods of the World) (Hardcover)

If you want history it may be OK, but for recipes, it's lacking. Don't bother.