Share: A century of South African community recipes

Champion of South African home cooking, Errieda du Toit set out to write a cookbook about the food we most love to eat and the culture of sharing these recipes in community cookbooks. Intrigued by our strong attachment to these dog-eared, food-stained recipe collections, she pored over 150 titles spanning a century. Share is her tribute to this humble culinary source and a celebration of its collaborative spirit. It's the first to deal specifically with the genre, and the result is a delightful, quirky, and thoroughly modern homage that uniquely taps into our food memories.

Share features a wide selection of recipes as generous, gracious, and welcoming as the home cooks who shared them: the keepers (recipes known for their longevity), the never-fails (those epic recipes that never let you down), communal food for come-on-overs, retro classics and those defining dishes and bakes treasured as heritage food.