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by Amanda on May 30th, 2011
Daar is nou wel wonderlike resepte in Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout se kookboek, Evita se Kossie Sikelela (ook beskikbaar in Engels as Evita’s Kossie Sikelela), maar Bezuidenhout het aan Beeld se Leefstyl-bylaag gesê die eintlike sleutel tot sukses in die kombuis is jy!
“Soek die stoof. Skink ’n glasie wyn. Skop af die skoene. Voer die kat in die ander kamer. Kies ’n resep en begin,” stel sy voor. Haar lighartige kookboek is perfek vir hierdie eenvoudige, ontspanne benadering tot kosmaak:
Vertel ons so ’n bietjie van jou kookboek – wat is die kosfilosofie van Evita se Kossie Sikelela?
My kookboek is nie ’n moeilike tesis nie – almal sal dit verstaan al kan hulle nie kook nie, of dink hulle kan nie. Almal kan.
Daar is nie prente van die kos in die boek nie, want wie se kos gaan buitendien so lyk?
Die boek is vol lekker goed wat ’n glimlag sal bring en die kos is alles getoets en die duim-op gegee. Die filosofie is eenvoudig: Kook en geniet!
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by Amanda on Feb 18th, 2011
Laurie Gaum het broer Dennis se 80ste verjaarsdag in sy huis oorkant die VGK in Belhar bygewoon en is effens onkant gevang deur die nagmaal wat by die geleentheid bedien is. Tog het dit vir hom ‘n versoeningsmaal geword wat hom ‘n bietjie vryer laat voel het, skryf hy in Rapport:
Broer Dennis nooi my na sy 80ste verjaardagpartytjie. Ek kan nie glo dat hy al so ver in die lewe trek nie. Hy praat van Maandagoggend, maar ek is onseker wanneer presies om op te daag en besluit dus op 11:00.
Sy huis is op die hoek net oorkant die VGK in Belhar. Ja, sowaar daardie plek wat aan die beroemde belydenis waaroor mense so struwel sy naam gegee het. Dit is einste by ’n sinode in daardie kerkgebou waar die Belydenis van Belhar in 1986 deur die tóé nog NG Sendingkerk amptelik aanvaar is.
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by Amanda on Feb 2nd, 2011
Imraan Coovadia, author of High Low In-between, writes in the Telegraph, that South Africa is a true paradise for tourists. Cape Town, Coovadia says, is the ideal spot for writers and poets because of its many perspectives, wide variety of people and historical links to India, Indonesia, Holland and the United Kingdom.
I live in Cape Town. Because of its geometry, Cape Town is a great city for writers and poets. Writers love perspectives, seeing things from more than one angle, and finding out that all things are relative and related to each other. If there was an Einstein of human relationships, which there couldn’t be, he would have told us that everything about human beings is related, and relative, and Cape Town would have been his observatory.
A 10-minute drive through the city (from Gardens, say, where I live, through Zonnebloem and Woodstock and Rondebosch and Plumstead and, eventually, Athlone) includes a crazy number of angles, a wide variety of people – from the bergies, the drifters, the students and the refugees from Congo and Zimbabwe to office workers and European tourists – Lamborghinis on display, and, perhaps, the president’s convoy which passes me on the M3 because we go to work in different directions. He goes to parliament and I go to the university.
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by Amanda on Jan 10th, 2011
Having just won the Gourmand world cookbook award for the “Best Easy Recipe Book”, it seems that our favourite Tannie, Evita Bezuidenhout, is just going to get better with age. Says Evita, “I am thrilled and delighted at this news and pay a special tribute to Linda Vicquery, who did most of the work while I picked up most of the weight!” Clayton Swanepoel takes a look at Evita’s Kossie Sikelela
Evita Bezuidenhout just gets better and better with age. Her first cookbook, Evita’s Kossie Sikelela, has been announced as the South African winner in the category “Best Easy Recipes Book” at the Gourmand world cookbooks awards for 2010.
The award qualifies Bezuidenhout for the next round and for the “Gourmand Best in the World” award, which will take place in Paris on March 3 on the first day of the Paris Cookbook Fair.
The book was co-written by Linda Vicquery and has sold more than 40 000 copies since its release in March. Of the recognition, Evita said: “I am thrilled and delighted at this news and pay a special tribute to Linda Vicquery, who did most of the work while I picked up most of the weight! Best in South Africa is better than best in the world!”
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by Amanda on Dec 17th, 2010
Evita Bezuidenhout has done it again. Her very first cookbook, Evita’s Kossie Sikelela, of which over 40,000 copies have been sold since the release in March 2010, has just been named the South African winner of the Gourmand World Cookbooks Awards 2010, in the category “Best Easy Recipes Book.”
This qualifies Mrs Bezuidenhout’s book for the next round, in which its peers from all other countries compete for the “Gourmand Best in the World” award. The award ceremony takes place in Paris (France – not Parys in the Free State) on 3 March 2011 on the first day of the Paris Cookbook Fair.
Evita, who is no stranger to fame and the limelight, says: “I am thrilled and delighted at this news and pay a special tribute to Linda Vicquery who did most of the work, while I picked up most of the weight! Best in South Africa is better than best in the world!”
Publisher Frederik de Jager says: “The delight of having to do with Tannie Evita is like standing in the crowd and cheering her along the red carpet. She is glamour and generosity personified and makes magic of everything she touches. And her partner in this book Linda Vicquery is as bounteous in the arts of cooking and drawing as she is in her love of life. Eating one’s way through this entire book couldn’t give greater pleasure than seeing the two of them thus honoured.”
Author royalties from the sale of this book, matched by the publishers, go to the Darling Trust, founded by Pieter-Dirk Uys to serve the community of Darling in the Western Cape through art and culture, education and health.
Praise for Evita’s Kossie Sikelela:
“Utterly delicious” – Horizons
“Evita is a national treasure … the illustrations are close to brilliant … You can’t help loving the old tart, can you?” – Jenny Crwys-Williams, Food & Home Entertaining
“reliable food that will not explode, collapse or fall over” – Mary Jordan, Business Day
“don’t let the laughter give you indigestion” – Patricia McCracken, Farmers Weekly
“a visual feast of spectacular proportions” – Diane de Beer, Pretoria News
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by Amanda on Aug 12th, 2010
Frits en Laurie Gaum se boek, Praat verby grense, is opgedra aan twee moeders: Hendra Gaum en “ook aan die kerk”.
“Ons voel baie keer moedeloos as ons moederloos gelaat word deur die verwerping van die kerk,” het Laurie gister in gesprek met sy pa, Frits, en Allan Boesak by Lobby Books in Kaapstad gesê. “Maar dank God vir moeders wat ons wys hoe eindelose liefde werklik lyk.” Laurie kan getuig van sy eie ma, Hendra, se liefde nadat dit bekend geword het dat hy gay is. Daarteenoor het die gemeente waar Laurie predikant was hom verwerp.
Volgens Frits is die boek ook aan die kerk opgedra omdat daar “dinge in die boek staan wat die kerk sal raak”. In Praat verby grense voer pa en seun ‘n openhartige gesprek oor onder meer Laurie se seksuele oriëntasie. Hierdie gesprek maak die deur oop om verskeie ander sake te bespreek. “Dat Laurie gay is, is ‘n belangrike deel daarvan, maar dit is nie die hele storie nie,” het Frits gesê.
Die Gaums het gereeld tydens Sondagmiddagete politiek, godsdiens en ander aktuele sake bespreek, maar Laurie meen hulle het verby mekaar gepraat. Frits het vermoed Laurie is gay, maar dit is nie direk gesê nie.
Uiteindelik het Laurie ‘n amptelike afspraak by sy pa se sekretaresse gemaak om hom in sy kantoor te spreek. Hier het hy sy hart oopgemaak. “’n Verhouding kan slegs verdiep as jy alles oor jouself deel,” het Laurie gesê. Sy eerlikheid het die geleentheid geskep om sy pa se denke te verander.
Allan Boesak het die boek as “eerlik, roerend en uitdagend” beskryf. “Nou kan ons openlik praat oor homoseksualiteit, sonder verskonings.” Die Gaums het die weg hiervoor gebaan.
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by Amanda on Aug 4th, 2010
Umuzi en Lobby Books nooi jou hartelik uit na die boekbekendstelling van Praat verby grense deur Laurie Gaum en Frits Gaum – in gesprek met Dr Allan Boesak.
‘n Ontroerende boek wat grense uitdaag en verskuif, en wat geen leser sonder begrip sal agterlaat nie.
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- Datum: Dinsdag, 10 Augustus 2010
- Tyd: 5:30 NM for 6:00 NM
- Plek: Lobby Books, Idasa
Spinstraat 6, Kaapstad | Padkaart
- RSVP: Andreas Spath, Idasa, aspath@idasa.org.za, 021 467 7606
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