Memoirs of the author's life in Franschhoek, South Africa.

Welcome to the beautiful valley of Franschhoek, also known as the food and wine capital of South Africa. The culinary and vinous developments in and around the Boland village over the last 25 years have been dramatic. Franschhoek’s Gallic heritage is reflected in both haute cuisine starring Cape ingredients, and in classic bistro fare, while other chefs are offering diners tastes of Africa and are incorporating indigenous plants first used by the valley’s original inhabitants. Myrna Robins had the difficult task of choosing just 18 of these culinary destinations, aiming for a collection that reflects the diversity of cuisine for which the valley is famous. You will find a globally renowned restaurant that keeps its place among the world’s top 50, along with others that make the top 20 list in South Africa. You will also find welcoming venues where chefs aim to highlight traditional Cape Favorites or to specialise in country cooking as affordable as it is delicious.

"This edited volume contains ... papers that were presented at the 1997 international symposium 'Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora', held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina"-- Library of Congress.

Trauma is one of the most important topics discussed throughout the clinical, social and cultural field. Social traumatization, as we meet it in the aftermath of genocide, war and persecution, is targeted at whole groups and thus affects the individual's immediate holding environment, cutting it off from an important resilience factor; further on, social trauma is implemented in a societal context, thus involving the surrounding society in the traumatic process. Both conditions entail major consequences for the impact and prognosis of the resulting individual posttraumatic disorders as well as for the social and cultural consequences. The volume connects clinical and epidemiological studies on the sequelae of social trauma to reflections from social psychology and the humanities. Post-war and post-dictatorial societies are in particular marked by the effects of massive, large group traumatization, and if these are not acknowledged, explored, and mourned, the unprocessed cumulative trauma that has become deeply embedded in the collective memory leads to periodical reactivations. To address social trauma, an interdisciplinary approach is required.

In a telegram sent on 29 April 1963, Ingrid Jonker thanks André Brink for his letter and flowers. They had met a few days before. He was almost twenty- eight; she thirty. This was the beginning of a correspondence between two writers that lasted up until three months before Jonker drowned herself at Three Anchor Bay. Half a century later, their love letters are published here for the first time. In more than two hundred letters that have never been seen before, a gripping love affair unfolds.

This 2nd edition Fodor's Gold Guide is ideal for travelers to South Africa, who want to experience fully the flavors, sights, and sounds of their destination. A-to-Z listings of important contacts and travel tips, detailed maps with bullets pinpointing hotels and restaurants, background essays, and a comprehensive index make the perfect travel package.

The quintessential South African cooking style, Reuben takes you on a roadtrip through his past from hunting and cooking pigeons on the farms of Franschhoek as a kid, to his travels. In Braai, Reuben on Fire, he challenges you to lift your game above the simple tanning of a chop and burning of boerie. Delving into the business of naming rites, the politics of the braai, the logistics of the braai timeline and the importance of developing a relationship with your butcher, Reuben covers the basics before getting into the meat of the matter. Throughout the book tips and tactics and wine and beer food pairings are dispersed liberally while braai myths are blown out of the water. The dishes are unmistakably South African in flavour and feel. From new versions of standard rockstar South African ingredients to digging deep into the spectrum of what is possible on a braai, Braai aE ' Reuben on Fire is a book for any braai fan keen to take their skills to the next level.