My Cape Malay Kitchen: Cooking for my Father

by Cariema Isaacs

Overview

My Cape Malay Kitchen is a breathtakingly beautiful presentation of some 80 traditional Cap 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 this unique community. 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:	9781432305659
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	12/16/2016
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Notes for the Reader 8

Stews and Bredies 10

Cape Malay Classics 24

Smoortjies 44

Curries - The Magic of Spices, Garlic and Ginger 56

Bo-Kaap and My Cape Malay Heritage 68

Ramadan 76

Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha 110

Great Food Fast 138

Side Dishes - Those Underrated Little Gems 150

A Dollop of Sweet Love 178

Glossary 200

Thanks to… 202

Postscript 204

Recipe Index 205

Editorial Reviews

Sometimes a book is multiple things. Recipes. Adventure. Tribute. Education. You’ll find all that in My Cape Malay Kitchen… “Merger of cuisines” is perhaps the best summary of this book. Every dish shines with its culinary heritage on display. And every dish has some hook to entice you to try it. An old friend or a new constellation of spices. My Cape Malay Kitchen is a sweet book — well spicy, too — and one you’ll find charming and flavorful.

The Huffington Post - Brian O'Rourke

Sometimes a book is multiple things. Recipes. Adventure. Tribute. Education. You’ll find all that in My Cape Malay Kitchen… “Merger of cuisines” is perhaps the best summary of this book. Every dish shines with its culinary heritage on display. And every dish has some hook to entice you to try it. An old friend or a new constellation of spices. My Cape Malay Kitchen is a sweet book — well spicy, too — and one you’ll find charming and flavorful.

The Huffington Post Brian O'Rourke