The perfect festive gifts for 2022 loading – five cookbooks your foodie friends will devour!

Give your food-loving friends and family the perfect gift this festive season. Here are five great local cookbooks from 2022:

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Hosting With The Lazy Makoti: A Celebration of Food by Mogau Seshoene, aka The Lazy Makoti

The highly anticipated cookbook for 2022 from South Africa’s award-winning and bestselling cookbook author and chef! Seshoene is a trained chef and award-winning cookbook author. Her previous book, The Lazy Makoti’s Guide to the Kitchen, became an instant bestseller.

In her own words:

‘I am back with a brand-new collection of over 100 delicious, easy-to-follow recipes! I will show you how to host any occasion with stylish and tasty food, from soul-warming one-pot dinners, irresistible easy bakes, and hearty plant-based dishes to Mzansi favourites, flavourful seven-colour meals, decadent desserts, vibrant African cuisine, and much more.’

Watch the virtual launch of The Lazy Makoti: A Celebration of Food with radio personality, Anela Mdoda.

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Simply Seven Colours by Zola Nene

In Simply Seven Colours, Zola gives praise to the uniquely South African seven-colour (or several-colour) concept with a selection of more simply delicious recipes that tap into the heart of our food nostalgia, with a focus on going back to basics.

The idea of Simply Seven Colours is for you to create your own unique seven-colour menu, by picking recipes from different chapters or ‘colours’. From green, yellow, orange, brown, white, red, a rainbow of colours and, of course, desserts to round off your seven-colour meal, this book is sure to bring you more simply delicious joy.

‘Leaving a legacy of recipes brings me so much joy,’ Zola said in a recent article in The Penguin Post. Plus, try her recipe for Chicken and Apricot Sosaties!

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Sifo: The Cooking Husband by Sinoyolo Sifo

Sinoyolo Sifo is a husband that cooks. His goal: to break the gender stereotypes that surround male figures in the kitchen and encourage more men to cook.

Using what he calls ‘the universal language of food’, Sifo: The Cooking Husband is an invitation to readers – men and women alike – to share in the joy of making memories through food. Inspired by the nostalgia of home and family, this book brings together a selection of almost 70 recipes, each one simple and accessible, wholesome and delicious. There are scrumptious breakfasts, indulgent pasta dishes, hearty stews, quick lunches, impressive dinners, decadent desserts, as well as traditional South African dishes and some childhood favourites.

Whether you are a newbie cook still finding your way around the kitchen, or more confident in your culinary abilities, these recipes are sure to satisfy the foodie in you. Starting with … Sifo’s delicious recipe for Chocolate Mousse Pie – yum!

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Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle by Hendrik Marais

In 2017, Hendrik Marais founded Keto Lifestyle South Africa with the aim of providing the information needed to build a healthy, sustainable lifestyle based on the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting.

He believes that while nutrition is important, a healthy lifestyle must find the right balance between sleep, stress management, exercise and nutrition. By making keto accessible and approachable, Hendrik has inspired thousands of people to adopt simple, healthy eating habits and stick to them.

Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle incorporates a comprehensive introduction that sets out his principles and practices for following a keto diet, and explains how to achieve your weight-loss goals. This is followed by a selection of delicious, healthy recipes, as well as sample meal plans and ideas for effortless entertaining.

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Cooking with Love by Trish van der Nest

Trish has always been an avid collector of recipes, seeking out those that appeal to her tastebuds, tell a story, capture a memory, or recount the origin of how she came by the recipe.

Cooking with love: Treasured recipes from family and friends pays tribute to some of the friends, family, chefs and cookbook authors whose recipes have become part of her own culinary journey. Many recipes are introduced by a note explaining the story behind the dish, allowing the reader a glimpse into how this very personal collection of recipes came into being.

As a homeopath, Trish understands the role that good nutrition plays in supporting and maintaining wellbeing, and her healthy, carb-conscious recipes show that it is possible to prepare delicious, family-friendly meals without sacrificing any flavour, texture or taste.