Rainbow cuisine / Lannice Snyman photographed by Andrzej Sawa
Hout bay, South Africa : S & S Publishers, 1998
In little more over three hundred years, one of the world's most intriguing
and diverse cuisines has evolved at the southern tip of Africa.
The challenge of capturing for posterity this ongoing, ever-changing - and
largely undiscovered - culinary evolution has been a fascinating, awe- inspiring
task for author Lannice Snyman and photographer Andrzej Sawa, South Africa's
foremost food writing, styling and photographic team, who also published the
book. They spent seven years travelling the length and breadth of the country
to track down historical and regional delicacies, and studying - and
photographing - the multi-cultural lifestyle of the population.
The result is the keenly awaited Rainbow cuisine, a book which, for the first
time, encompasses the foods of all the peoples of the country, and sets them
against the grand backdrop of South Africa's scenic splendour.
The insightful, informative text explores the human and culinary history of
seven geographical regions, and traces the local diet from the days when the
land was inhabited by hunter-gatherers and pastoralists, through the arrival of
European settlers and folk from eastern lands, and on to modern times.
Rainbow cuisine takes the reader on a travelogue as well as a gastronomic
tour-all in one stunning volume. It is a book to browse through, to read, to
cook from, and to treasure.
Source : Rainbow Cuisine / Lannice Snyman photography by Andrzej Sawa
