Love Letter to Lallie A Family's Culinary Journey |
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| General Editor:
| Rassool, Michail
Barends, Zenariah |
| Photographer:
| Rodrigues, Lana |
| Foreword by:
| Rassool, Ciraj |
| Illustrator:
| Rassool, Reza |
| Author:
| Rassool, Family |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8434-2939-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $25.95 |
Book Description:
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There was a consensus among the descendants of Ayesha ("Lallie") and Pero ("Oups") Rassool, that this cookbook,
Love Letter to Lallie: A Family's Culinary Journey, was a fitting tribute to our grandmother, Lallie, as well as a means of drawing the disparate threads of a very large family together, scattered across the world, on at least four continents. The family's residence was number 24 Queens Road, Woodstock in Cape Town, South Africa featured in the cover art....
More DescriptionThere was a consensus among the descendants of Ayesha ("Lallie") and Pero ("Oups") Rassool, that this cookbook,
Love Letter to Lallie: A Family's Culinary Journey, was a fitting tribute to our grandmother, Lallie, as well as a means of drawing the disparate threads of a very large family together, scattered across the world, on at least four continents.
The family's residence was number 24 Queens Road, Woodstock in Cape Town, South Africa featured in the cover art. Lallie and Oups raised four daughters and four sons. So, this cookbook, a COVID lockdown project, is a curation of recipes from eight families charting the development of a culinary tradition.
The book is structured in two parts - a family history is followed by the trove of recipes in nine chapters.
Many families that count the Indian sub-continent and its borderlands as a part of their heritage have individual historical narratives to relate their eternal link to that part of the world, one forged in the context of migration to other parts, and the Rassool family is certainly no exception.
Professor Ciraj Rassool, has provided a narrative of the family's links with the past. He underscores other ingredients in the line of descent. It serves as a tribute to the surname many of us identify with as a wider family - and begins the story of the Rassools in the Cape, with the ancestor and our paternal great-grandfather, Malick Rassool, also from north-west border of India. Like our maternal great-grandfather, Yusuf Gool, he came to Cape Town for better opportunities, settling in Somerset West where he also married and set down intractable roots.
In the foreword,
Our Struggle Against Apartheid and what we had for Lunch, Reza Rassool shares his childhood memories of food and family while growing up in Cape Town during apartheid South Africa.
The recipe chapters, lavishly illustrated, include:
- Grains of Rice - rice dishes such as biryani and akhni;
- For the Soul - heartwarming curries and bredies;
- A Bowl of Love - soups and comfort food;
- From the Oven - pies and slow-cooked dishes;
- Buon Appetito - simple pasta dishes;
- Through the Fire - braai and summer food;
- Padkos or Party - food for entertainment and then for the road
- On the Side - salads and accompaniments;
- Sweet Things - desserts and festival dainties.
This cookbook is our culinary love letter to our source of inspiration, Lallie, our mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. We hope you will enjoy what it has to offer.