Taste Freedom: Food from the Freedom Cafe

A celebration of the author/chef’s mantra—“local, fresh, direct”—this unconventional cookbook contains excellent recipes from the Freedom Café in Durban. Sensationally illustrated with photographs and hilarious sketches, its recipes include vine tomatoes with a sprinkling of sea salt; Bloody Marys made with horseradish and celery sticks; old-fashioned ginger beer; and “chakalaka” oysters with shallot vinegar. Inventive yet not overly complicated, featuring easy-to-follow instructions, this is a cookbook that presents recipes with a stylish twist.