Delectable is more than just a cookery book; it's about good living as much as it is about good food. Author Marlene van der Westhuizen uses her love of France and French country cooking to infuse local dishes with a particularly European flavour. The food she cooks is not haute cuisine – you will not find in this book small portions of foreign dishes with strange ingredients. On the contrary, Marlene cooks South African food (and dishes up enough to satisfy a South African appetite), but with a rural french twist. Delectable contains over 80 recipes and more than twice as many photographs, showcasing the scenery of the french countryside, detail of ancient french villages, the colour and vitality of markets and antique fairs, and, of course, the food! Recipes are interspersed with little-known treasures from the South African wine industry, ensuring that your table is laid with the food and drink of the gods. And just like the recipes, the layout and format of the book are simple, sleek, and easy-to-use, and heavyweight art-coated paper has been used to ensure that the photographs depict the french countryside as vividly as possible.

The bright yellow sunflowers in the fields around Charroux, the smell of roasting chestnuts, rich onion soup, a classic salad Nicoise, cassoulet or pot au feu, fennel and endive, lemn tarts, malva pudding and the wild food of the places where I live ... Walks down narrow country lanes, wild beaches and cobbled streets ... Times with special people over simple meals ... This I want to share with you. Marlene van der Westhuizen More wonderful recipes from Marlene van der Westhuizen's French cooking school.

Evita – bekroonde sjef en ikoon van die nasie – bring vir jou die heerlikste disse van haar omswerwinge deur gans Suid-Afrika en die wye wêreld.

Van die Kaap tot in Limpopo, van die Weskus tot daar waar die President vandaan kom, rol die borde in vol kwartels en tarentaalsvleis met pruimedante. Kweperbredie en lemoeneend. Pofadders, beesstert en soetsuur vlakvark. Sy maak ou geregte nuut, en berei veldkos fyn – wie het kon dink aan waterblommetjiehoender of botterblomslaai vir die eetkamertafel?

Iedere resep getoets en gekeur, almal verspot maklik om te maak. Goeiste, net om haar boek te lees of deur te blaai is al ’n smakkende ervaring, met al die prente van ons vriendin op al die plekke waar sy was.

Eers was dit Kossie Sikelela, nou Bossie – ’n nuwe kou-front tref jou tafel.

Evita – acclaimed chef and icon of the nation – presents her recipes for delicious dishes gathered on travels in South Africa and around the world.

From the Cape to Limpopo, the West Coast to our president’s home province, come divine platefuls: guineafowl with prunes, potroasted quail, quince bredie and orange duck. Pofadders, oxtail and even sweet and sour warthog. Evita reinvents old favourites, and deliciously prepares veldkos – who would have thought of waterblommetjie chicken or dandelion salad for the dinner table? Each recipe has been tested and vetted, and they’re all ridiculously easy to make. My liewe aarde, just paging through the book is a mouth-watering experience, with all these pictures taken on her visits.

First there was Kossie Sikelela, now there is Bossie. A new culinary front hits your table!

Na die wegholsukses van haar vroeere kookboeke het die skrywer nou saam met haar dogter resepte vir smaaklike eenskottelmaaltye geskep. Hierdie versameling van tydlose en kontemporere resepte sal onmisbaar wees in elke huis en jou inspireer om nuwe idees op die proef te stel om jou spyskaart uit te brei. Die geregte is maklik om gaar te maak en die bestanddele is vrylik beskikbaar. Ou gunstelinge word op 'n vars, nuwe manier aangebied en talle nuwe geure en smake word bekendgestel - heerlike kuierkos vir vriende en familie. Alternatiewe gaarmaakmetodes word vir die meeste resepte voorgestel wat dit 'n wonderlike bron van inligting vir vakansies en al fresco-onthale maak. Dit sluit die stoof, oond, mikrogolf, prutpot en kosmaak oor die kole in. Die meer as 200 resepte bestaan uit eenskotteltreffers vir hoofmaaltye, ontbyt, quiches, pastageregte, hoofmaaltye sonder vleis, roerbraaigeregte, slaaie, poedings en heerlike, praktiese resepte vir stukkonfyt.

Sonia en Jade se entoesiasme vir smaaklike, geurryke kookkuns sprankel behoorlik uit elke bladsy van Luscious Vegetarian! Dié boek bevat prettige en maklike vegetariese resepte wat met sorg gekies is om die voorkeure van jong werkende mense, bedrywige gesinne en hedonistiese gesondheidsbewustes gelyktydig te bevredig.

Die resepte bevat alles en nog wat, vanaf vinnige disse vir elke dag, ligte happies en lekkernye, tot by suiwer sielskos en hedonistiese feesmaaltye en maak meestal van plaaslike bestanddele gebruik. Daar is ook bobaas-bakresepte en heerlike soet lekkernye. Hierdie boek is die begin van ’n avontuurlike liefdesverhouding met die vegetariese kookkuns.