Eating Out With Dusty Miller - Rain-Free At Raintree!
I'M grateful to professional outside caterer and events coordinator Sarah Lilford, for writing a beautiful book entitled "Dusty Road, a taste of farm life and living in Zimbabwe."
First published in January this year, a second edition is already being prepared for re-print in Mauritius.
In 260 lavishly illustrated glossy pages on quality heavy stock, the hard cover book provides a history of the Lilfords and their extended family in this country and a focus on local farming in its heyday and at its most deeply depressing at the height of lunatic land invasions.
It's a travel book, with much emphasis on the author's personal journeys for pleasure and as a top cook in this country, the region, in Europe and the Commonwealth and it's a state-of-the art classy coffee table cookbook with more than 80 mouthwatering recipes for local and international dishes from Amarula ice-cream and avocado pear dip to vundu curry and warthog pie with mushrooms.
Perhaps more importantly, while the book (ISBN 978-0-7974-4704-2) stays in print (at US$40 a copy) there will always been an attractive, highly acceptable, Christmas, birthday or farewell gift available for any Zimbabwean, ex-Zimbo, farmer or foodie in the family.
