JANUARY 2009
Regional Winner:
2008 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Category: Culinary Travel

Join renowned food writer Lannice Snyman on a fascinating journey to the gastronomic heart of her African homeland and discover its history, cuisine and cultural traditions.

Tortoises & Tumbleweeds (Journey through an African Kitchen) - the eagerly-awaited sequel to the international best-seller Rainbow Cuisine - glances over its shoulder, embraces current food trends and looks to the future. It traces the origins of the people who have made their home at the southern tip of Africa and takes the armchair traveller on a picturesque taste-trip through the countryside.

A kaleidoscope of colours, creeds and social backgrounds makes up the South African nation, creating a complex society and a patchwork of lifestyles and food styles. Our unique culinary, cultural and human history means that some recipes are based in tradition while others are freely filched from neighbouring countries and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Recipes in the book define the South African table - rustic and refined, wholesome and hearty, simple and spicy - are inspired by early cookbooks as well as folk who opened their hearts, homes, huts and kaia's to Lannice on her journeys of research over many years which introduced her to a broad spectrum of cooks and bridged all culinary divides. In Tortoises & Tumbleweeds, Lannice puts it all into the melting potjie, flavours it artfully and imbues each page with a personal stamp of finesse.

Some recipes are true to their origins; others reflect a fusion of flavours; many are rooted in the mists of time. All are personal favourites that have been updated for the modern kitchen. Happily, none include tortoises, which are protected now and no longer simmered into soup.

TORTOISES & TUMBLEWEEDS

Publication:	December 2008
ISBN:	978-0-620-41993-2
Price:	R325.50
Format:	244 pages. 260mm x 240mm Portrait
Photographs:	225 in full colour
Binding:	Hard cover. Dust jacket. Matt lamination. Embossing. Spot Varnishing

THE AUTHOR & PUBLISHER

Food guru Lannice Snyman is one of the most highly respected, versatile and prolific of South Africa's contemporary food writers and restaurant critics. She is lauded for not only documenting her country's cuisine, but also for making it accessible, and has notched up several national and international awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to the local culinary scene.

Tortoises & Tumbleweeds, her sixteenth book, joins an illustrious list of titles spanning thirty years and which have sold more than 400 000 copies. Lannice is the resident food expert on the website www.food24.com, a judge for Diners Club Wine List Awards and the Galliova Awards for food-writers, and a consultant for the American Express Platinum Fine Dining Programme. She is Regional Chairman for southern Africa for The S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants organised by Restaurant magazine in London. For this she travels to global culinary hot spots to check out high-end eateries as well as to track international culinary and publishing trends. Her niche, family-run company, Lannice Snyman Publishers, specialises in cookery books and contract publishing.

THE TEAM

Author:	Lannice Snyman
Design:	PetalDesign. Cover Design: Matthew Ibbotson @ PetalDesign
Food Photography:	Warren Heath
Food Styling:	Tamsin Snyman
Pre-Press Production:	Resolution Colour, Cape Town
Printing:	Tien Wah Press, Singapore

FOR MORE INFORMATION / ORDERS

Contact Courtenay at Lannice Snyman Publishers.
Tel (021) 790-3367. Fax 0866 346 142
Email: courtenay@lannicesnyman.com
www.lannicesnyman.com