On The Shelf - July 2011

Delicious delights

Cakebread, Pudding & Pie

Author: Callie Maritz & Mari-Louis Guy    

Published by Random House Struik

It is winter and a lot of us are looking for some comfort food to keep us warm and happy during this dull season. If you love filling your home with delicious sweet smells and want to up the temperature by keeping the stove running all day, this book will definitely work for you! This beautifully illustrated coffee table cook book is filled with more than a hundred delicious recipes – that are just as good as the book is beautiful. This mouth-watering guide includes recipes for everything from breakfast ideas, to pastries, bread, pies and tarts. It even has a chapter on gluten-free baking, which includes recipes for desserts, cake and tarts. There are also useful hints and interesting facts used throughout the book. If you want to take homemade cooking to the next level, this book won’t disappoint you. The ideal gift for new as well as experienced cooks.

About the authors: Callie Maritz and Mari-Louis Guy were first introduced to the hospitality industry while growing up in a small hotel on the Cape’s West Coast. Their combined careers include restaurants, hotels, catering, bars, nightclubs, food styling and product development. As food stylists they regularly contribute to a host of local and international magazines and television commercials. This book is a follow-up on the hugely successful – Cakes to Celebrate Love and Life.  

Ranger at heart

Game Ranger in Your Backpack: All-in-one interpretative guide to the Lowveld 

Authors: Megan Emmett and Sean Pattrick

Published by: Briza Publications

Most of us would rather go for an outing in the bush than tend to the reality of day-to-day life … and some of us have a passion for the outdoors and can not wait for our next holiday at a bush resort or tent camp. If you love the bush and you want to incorporate a little bit of this experience into your everyday life, this book is definitely for you! This is not a conventional field guide in the sense that it will not provide reams of dreary detail on how to identify a particular plant or bird (although it does offer useful pointers of features to look out for).
This book is intended to substitute the presence of a personal guide or ‘game ranger’ during visits to the Lowveld region of South Africa and is written in such an interesting way that you will almost feel like you are in the bush – even when you are not. It makes the practical, interpretative information on the most commonly encountered species in the Lowveld, accessible at a glance and eliminates the need to have several different books piled on the seat beside you. Game Ranger in your Backpack is a compact companion that not only offers interesting information on wildlife topics including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, invertebrates, trees, grasses, flowers and tracks but it is also visually interpretative, offering hundreds of images to assist with the deciphering of animal behaviour or the recognition of common species. The ideal gift for anyone who loves the outdoors and who enjoy the bush! 

About the authors: Since leaving school, Megan has worked in the wildlife industry, a consequence of childhood ambitions. She began her career by completing a B.Tech degree in Nature Conservation at Saasveld. During her studies she spent time working in the well-known Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve and in various parks within the North West Parks Board. Sean Pattrick is the founder of Natural Exposure CC, a company that was born in 2002 to offer others the exposure and experience of wildlife that Sean himself is passionate about, be it through the lens of a camera or in the form of guided nature safaris.

This book is also available in Afrikaans.

Keep your family healthy

Ultimate Guide to Family Health

Author: Linda Friedland 

Published by: Human & Rosseau

This comprehensive, practical guide is a must for new as well as experienced moms. Because all families are exposed to some health troubles and emergencies every now and again, this book offers advice for families when confronted with problems from any of the different stages of family members’ lives.

Health issues that are mainly included in this useful book are:

• preventative strategies
• major health threats
• general medical conditions
• common children’s health problems
• common men’s health problems
• common women’s health problems
• first aid and trauma

The book helps moms to identify symptoms, gives advice on possible treatments and also gives some tips on how to prevent certain problems. Definitely a great gift when you do not know what to get someone for their baby shower or birthday.

About the author: Linda Friedland is a healthcare professional, sought-after media personality, internationally recognised conference speaker, and contributor to health and women’s publications, television and radio programmes. She lives in Australia and is married with five children.

Vir ons Afrikaanse lesers!

Partytjie-tyd!

Partytjies is Pret 3

Skrywers: Arina du Plessis, Bernice van der Merwe

Uitgewer: Human & Rosseau 

Ma-wees is nie altyd maklik nie en om die perfekte partytjie vir jou kind se verjaardag te reël nog minder – veral omdat vandag se kinders so vol nonsens kan wees oor wat in is en wat nie. Daarom het mens soms bietjie hulp en inspirasie nodig om seker te maak dat jou volgende kinderpartytjie ’n sukses is! Hierdie handige gids (die derde in die praktiese reeks) bied juis sulke hulp aan in die vorm van:

• Partytjie-idees (met temas)
• Stap-vir-stap-aanwysings
• Kreatiewe uitnodiging-idees
• Inspirasie vir lekkergoedpakkies
• Resepte vir soet en sout lekkernye
• Heerlike drinkgoedresepte
• Sakpas-oplossings

Met hierdie boek aan jou kant, sal niks skeefloop nie! ’n Moet vir alle mammas met jong kinders! 

Oor die skrywers: Arina du Plessis is ’n vryskut-kosskrywer en op die oomblik die kosredakteur van die Landbouweekblad. Sy het alreeds twee boeke uitgegee naamlik Onthaal – vars idees en resepte vir enige kuier en Plaaskos.
Bernice van der Merwe het haar loopbaan begin as kos- en dekorskrywer asook stileerder vir verskeie tydskrifte. Sy is op die oomblik Huisgenoot en You se kosstileerder.