Start this New Year with these fab books!
Two fabulous books to keep you wined and dined this New Year.
Vegan food is anything but dull as Leozette Roode proves in The South African Vegan Cookbook. She has info on alternatives and everyday products, answers the most often asked questions and shares recipes for meals and smoothies. Kick-start the day with a chocolate, peanut butter and coffee smoothie or a chickpea omelette with cashew-cream sauce; for lunch, munch pea and pesto quinoa salad or potatoes stuffed with curried soya mince, then indulge in chocolate and coconut tart at tea time. For dinner there are pastas, pies and chickpea burgers and the book is rounded off with treats like avo-chocolate truffles or berry balls. Human & Rousseau, R323.
Anyone who loves wine (and who doesn’t?) will find Red & White by top expert Oz Clarke a mine of marvellous information. It’s not only a reference book, it’s one that can be read for pleasure as Oz pops the cork on his lifelong love affair with wine. He explains how, why and where wine is made, takes readers into the wine regions and introduces them to the wines he loves. He covers with equal care blue chip wines along with the most affordable. This is a guide wine lovers will find invaluable. Little Brown, R338.
