Cooking for my father in My Cape Malay Kitchen: Cooking for my father in My Cape Malay Kitchen

by Cariema Isaacs

Overview

The magical difference between food prepared in a restaurant and that in a home kitchen for family and friends, is a little ingredient called love. And love is most evident in what is essentially Cariema Isaacs’s tribute to her late father as she shares their mutual passion for food and cooking, as well as their Cape Malay heritage. My Cape Malay Kitchen is a breathtakingly beautiful presentation of some 80 traditional Cape Malay recipes as well as a selection of modern dishes. These are accompanied by Cariema’s depiction of her childhood growing up in Bo-Kaap – the Cape Malay Quarter of Cape Town. She includes the religious and cultural ceremonies, as well as events that have shaped the Cape Malay community into the unique community it is today. But My Cape Malay Kitchen is still a cookbook, packed with flavourful food, richly spiced curries, indulgent cakes and decadent desserts, all illustrated with truly inspirational photography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781432307721
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	61 MB
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About the Author

Cariema Isaacs is a South African food writer, chef and entrepreneur based in Dubai, where she attained her culinary diploma at the International Centre for Culinary Arts. A marketing graduate, Cariema currently works for a multinational company, and she maintains that it’s the ever-changing landscape of this environment that fuels her culinary creativity and love for writing. She is an active blogger on social media and has already published three cookbooks. Her first, Cooking for My Father in My Cape Malay Kitchen (2016) is a heartfelt tribute to her late father, inspired by her recollections of growing up in Bo-Kaap, the Cape Malay Quarter of Cape Town, South Africa. This was followed by Spice Odyssey (2019), which was nominated for the Gourmand Culinary Awards 2020 in the category of Spices. Cariema went on to write Curried (2021), which she joyfully attributes to her insatiable love of curries. Cariema teams up with her husband and ardent photographer, Turhaan Samodien, who she credits for bringing Modern Cape Malay Cooking to life through his evocative photography. They reside in Dubai with their sons Tawfeeq and Tashreeq.