Recipes from the Hearth: At Home with South African Icons Gwynne Conlyn, Francois Ferreira.

 Jacana, 2008. Paperback, new.

Recipes from the Hearth features the favourite recipes of 36 of South Africa s most-loved celebrities. Recipes for peri peri prawns from Basetsana Kumalo, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Tutu chicken. The cookbook was commissioned by Business Against Crime Western Cape to capture the public's heart by capturing their stomachs. The design of the cookbook is crisp and clear.

Each icon is given three double-page spreads in which they outline their lives and their successes, and why they love the particular recipe they have chosen. Not only does the reader come away with a sense of homely values, but he or she gets closer to the icons that are featured in the cookbook.

Recipes from the Hearth is a celebration of family values, and in some cases nostalgia. This cookbook was also commissioned as a means to raise funds for the non-profit organisation, Business Against Crime Western Cape. 220 pp.