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The Culinary Adventures of a Travelli ng Cook For William, Moira and Graham Natasha BarNes Food photography By patrick royal Thanks I wish to thank Peta Lamb from Parys, as well as my dear friend Delyse Thank you, too, to Anne McLeod, my advanced cake-decorating Fell from Amanzimtoti for their relentless nagging to write this book. My teacher, for her proofreading, guidance and assistance with my fruitcake heartfelt thanks goes to my friend Hettie Saaiman, who so gracefully put recipes. Her vast experience was invaluable. up with me for a whole month in Mauritius, and allowed me to run amok I wish to thank the following people for contributing some of the in her kitchen while I finished this book. Thank you to Joyce who cleaned photographs: Leonie O’Donelle, Richard Heeps, Nadine Oliver, Alida up week after week with a smile. I also cannot go without saying thank Coetzee, Barry Lawson, Graham Barnes and Sue Wiper. you to my parents, Moira and William Barnes, who have always support- To the publishing team – Linda de Villiers (publisher), Joy Clack (editor), ed me in everything I have ever wanted to do, and for never saying ‘there’s Beverley Dodd (designer) – thank you from the bottom of my heart. This no money in Art, get a degree’. book would never have become a reality without your assistance and And a huge thank you to Graham for supporting me in every step of professional guidance. It really is a dream come true for me and I could this journey called life – dankie Boet. not have done anything as spectacular or visual without your input. Published in 2014 by Struik Lifestyle Photographic Credits (an imprint of Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd) Andre Anita/Shutterstock.com (p. 63 third row right); Kenji AZUMA/ Company Reg. No 1966/003153/07 Shutterstock.com (p. 86); Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock.com Estuaries No 4, Century Avenue (Oxbow Crescent), Century City 7441 (p. 136); Jez Bennett/Shutterstock.com (p. 1 right, p.62 fourth row left); PO Box 1144 Cape Town 8000 South Africa Bikeworldtravel/Shutterstock.com (p. 140 top left and bottom right); www.randomstruik.co.za Volodymyr Brudiak/Shutterstock.com (p. 63 first row right and third row left); Jordi C/Shutterstock.com (p. 62 first row centre); curioso/ Copyright © in published edition: Shutterstock.com (p. 92 bottom left); Endless Travellers/Shutterstock. 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Publisher: Linda de Villiers com (p. 92 top right); Megapixel.org/Shutterstock.com (p. 93 bottom Managing ediTor: Cecilia Barfield left); Maggy Meyer/Shutterstock.com (p. 56); Milosz_M/Shutterstock. designer: Beverley Dodd com (p. 176 bottom left); Kruglov Orda/Shutterstock.com (p. 18 first ediTor & indexer: Joy Clack (Bushbaby Editorial Services) row left); Vadim Petrakov/Shutterstock.com (p. 62 fourth row right); Food PhoTograPher: Patrick Royal Pincasso/Shutterstock.com (p. 85 fourth row left); PokkO/Shutterstock. Food sTylisT: Natasha Barnes com (p. 172); PzAxe/Shutterstock.com (p. 176 top right); Segoya/Shut- ProoFreader: Samantha Fick (Bushbaby Editorial Services) terstock.com (p. 125 bottom right); Sematadesigns/Shutterstock.com (p. 140 bottom left); Andrej Sevkovskij/Shutterstock.com (p. 63 fourth Reproduction by Hirt & Carter Cape (Pty) Ltd row centre) Mircea Simu/Shutterstock.com (p. 125 bottom left); Villiers Printing and binding by 1010 Printing International Ltd, China Steyn/Shutterstock.com (p. 26); Ian Woolcock/Shutterstock.com (p. 122). Contents Introduction 5 England – Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? 137 Parys – A river runs through it 7 China and Hong Kong – No English needed 153 The Bushveld – Oupa se kind 27 Thailand and Burma – A thousand little Buddhas 163 Silwood School of Cookery and Your Family magazine – An artist in the making 45 Singapore, Malaysia and Bali – Songbirds and satays 173 Out of Africa – Overland by any means 57 Sri Lanka – Tea for two 183 Ethiopia – No mountain too high 75 Cambodia and Vietnam – ... I took the one less Argentina and Paraguay – Old friends 87 travelled by 197 United States of America –Living the dream 99 India and Nepal – A passage to India 211 Russia – Christmas in Siberia 111 Recipe index 222 The Mediterranean – Food for the gods 123 INTRODUCTION Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story; and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author. George W. Bush The journey of this book began with an aerogram. A simple, folded sheet of paper from Sri Lanka that ultimately shaped a chapter of my life. At the time I did not realise the significance. I was, in all respects, happily employed as a cookery editor, and had a life plan mapped out. But, as John Lennon said: ‘Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans’ and I soon found myself in a completely different direction in a short space of time. I unintentionally swapped my apron for a paintbrush and rapidly became one of South Africa’s most published international artists. A journey as long and hard as the gold with which it is paved. My talent has taken me all over the world, affording me a whirlwind of success, and notability in my field. While nothing prepared me for this experience, I soon found myself reliving my adventures through food, instinctively collecting recipes and information along the way, knowing that, someday, I would share this knowledge. During my numerous trips abroad, I have not remained idle. To complement my Grande Diplome from Silwood School of Cookery, I attended cooking schools in Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, undertook an advanced cake decorating course, obtained a National Qualification in Training and Development from the hospitality industry, and opened two cooking schools at a maximum security prison in KwaZulu-Natal where I trained prisoners in conjunction with the Department of Labour. This enabled me to uplift the skills of the often forgotten and downtrodden souls from our society. In the early days of my career, it was not unheard of to cook with the prisoners in the mornings, paint in the afternoons and fly to New York over the weekends! One afternoon not that long ago, I found a little tin box with all sorts of bits and pieces, the type of stuff we keep for no reason at all. Amongst all that junk I found my blue aerogram, with a recipe lovingly scribbled in ink and post marked ‘Senkada Gala Sri Lanka 1997’. The aerogram sparked my memory and brought back the promise I had made to myself to one day write my story. At the time, of course, I was not sure of how it would play out. The aerogram was the first correspondence I had received from abroad and the first of many I had collected. The letter included a recipe and also the story behind it, and came from the Sri Lankan Minister of Defence. Instinctively I knew the time had come to tell my story. This book is the canvas of how it all played out. INTRODUCTION 5 P A R Y S

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Written by cook and artist Natasha Barnes from her numerous trips locally and abroad, this book shares many humorous accounts of her travels across the globe. Her experiences are relived through the foods she encountered and enjoyed in countries as diverse as the USA, Vietnam, Argentina, Ethiopia an
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