Return to Camdeboo: A century's Karoo foods and flavours

''Return to Camdeboo: A century's Karoo foods and flavours' as well as late Eve Palmer's previous memoir, 'The plains of Camdeboo', is a wonderful and soulful read.
Palmer, Eve
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978-0-14-352803-6
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Title: Return to Camdeboo
Subtitle: A century's Karoo foods and flavours
Author: Eve Palmer
Genre: Memoir, Recipes
Publisher: The Penguin Group (SA)
2nd edition. Cape Town, South Africa 2011
ISBN 9780143528036 / ISBN 978-0-14-352803-6
Softcover, 13 x 20 cm, 438 pages

Description:

'Return to Camdeboo: A century's Karoo foods and flavours' is not a mere cookery book, although recipes are included. It is a book about food and food related farm events. Eve Palmer had been planning a book on plants, and in between notes for this she had been collecting recipes, for the benefit of children and grandchildren, of the farm food they had enjoyed on her old Karoo home, Cranemere, close to the village of Pearston and almost midway between Graaff-Reinet and Somerset East on the Plains of Camdeboo. Her family has been there since 1880, so that the food story goes back over a hundred years. Soon she was not only collecting recipes, but thinking back to their history and associations, and the triumphs and hardships that had accompanied the generations. 'Return to Camdeboo' as well as late Eve Palmer's previous memoir, 'The plains of Camdeboo', is a wonderful and soulful read.

Contents: Return to Camdeboo. A century's Karoo foods and flavours

THE LIVING STORY: SITA'S LETTERS
THE FOOD WE EAT

Index to Recipes
Conversion tables
References
Index
Foreword
Acknowledgements
CAMDEBOO BACKGROUND
The first guest
Water
Wild foods upon the Plains
Of butterflies and garingboon
From ostriches to sheep
Lands and orchard
The romance of our fruit
Violets and others
The foods we remember
The fun and the story
The extras that we love
Drought, hail and scientists
Heat, wind, drought, rain
Goats, birds, and drought kaput
Oil Rig, fridge and otters
Floods, gardens, snow and storks
Wedding and departure