Kaapse Kontreikos by Trix Pienaar

Kaapse Kontreikos (Signed & Inscribed Afrikaans Cape Cookery Book)

A Chatty Afrikaans Celebration of Traditional Cape Country Cooking, Signed by the Author

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Kaapse Kontreikos
• Author: Trix Pienaar
• Publisher: Saayman & Weber, Kaapstad
• ISBN-10: 0797100172
• Edition Details: Signed and inscribed by the author.
• Binding: Hardcover with a glossy laminated, illustrated dust jacket bearing a colour photograph of a Cape hearth kitchen; red lettering to the spine.
• Physical Format: Slim hardcover, 56 pages. Colour photograph on the front of the jacket and an author portrait on the back.
• Language: Afrikaans

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The glossy laminated jacket is bright and clean on the spine, with crisp red lettering. A brown water-type stain with a wavy tide line runs along the lower edge of the front panel and wraps towards the fore-edge of the jacket. There are a few small dark specks on the back panel. The rest of the jacket is clean and bright.
• Interior: The title page and copyright page are clean, with faint show-through of the contents list on the title page and a few tiny light spots. The front free endpaper is slightly toned. No foxing is evident.
• Provenance: Signed by the author, Trix Pienaar, and inscribed in black ink on the front free endpaper: "Met mooiste wense vir Jan + Maryna."
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy laminated jacket is bright and clean apart from a brown water stain along the lower front edge and fore-edge area, and a few small dark specks on the back panel. Graded Very Good. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Kaapse Kontreikos (roughly, Cape Country Fare) is an Afrikaans cookery book of regional recipes that the author regards as typical of the Cape. It moves through comfort food, cold dishes, seafood and nostalgic favourites.

It is not a recipe book in the usual pattern. The author chats about her Cape food in a warm, conversational voice, so the book reads as much like an invitation to the Cape kitchen table as a collection of instructions.

Published in Cape Town by Saayman & Weber, it is a compact volume of the kind that preserves everyday Cape foodways in the language of the people who cooked them. This copy carries the author's signature and a personal inscription, which makes it a more personal example for collectors of Afrikaans cookery and signed Africana.

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