Babel by Maranda Engelbrecht

Published by Babyblostoren, 2013, softcover, folio sized, illustrated, 240 pages, 24.5 cms x 33.2 cms, condition: as new.

A food lover's delight, this is one of the most beautiful cookbooks you will ever see. Babel charts the restoration of a Cape Dutch farm, started in 1692, into one of South Africa's leading food innovators and restaurants. 224 pages filled with magnificent color photographs of farm and food, along with easy to follow recipes.

This book tells many stories the vision of creating an extraordinary place that allows the lives and work of culinary artists, horticulturalists, winemakers, farmers and many other talented people to come together. Our own kind of cooking: simple, generous and honest, with fresh, seasonal food that is closely tied to its origins the garden.

But above all, its the people with whom I work, and who share the same passion, that has given me a new sense of purpose. My life and my love for food, people, and now farming is all the richer for it. Maranda Engelbrecht