Return to Camdeboo by Eve Palmer | Karoo Farm Foods, Recipes & Memoirs, Vintage South African

Return to Camdeboo: A Centurys Karoo Foods and Flavours by Eve Palmer (first published 1992) isnt a conventional cookbookits a memoir entwined with food and farm life on the Camdeboo plains at the familys Cranemere farm. Palmer shares over a century of recipes, seasonal food traditions, personal reflections, and generational historyevoking both the hardship and joy of Karoo life 

Details:

• Author: Eve Palmer, South African writer and botanist with deep ties to the Camdeboo region 

Why Its Special:

• Combines food heritage, Botanical observation, and family storytelling on a historic Karoo farm 

• Includes traditional Karoo recipes (like bobotie, Cranemere sausages, lemon chiffon cake), with a conversion table for modern use 

• Offers a sense of place and history, plus insight into South African cultural and agricultural life 

🌟 Ideal for:

• Collectors of South African literature and cultural history

• Food and recipe enthusiasts interested in regional cuisine

• Botany or farm life readers who enjoy memoirs connected to land and seasons

• Gifts for anyone who loves the Karoo, heritage cooking, or memoir with a culinary twist

Return to Camdeboo, Eve Palmer, Karoo foods, Camdeboo, Cranemere farm, Karoo recipes, South African food heritage, farm memoir, botanical memoir, traditional recipes, bobotie, lemon chiffon cake, Karoo, Tafelberg, 1992