Cass Abrahams honoured for contribution to food writing
2010-06-29 12:54:13pm

Metz Press author, Cass Abrahams, together with SJA de Villiers and C Louis Leipoldt (posthumously), were recently bestowed high honour for their great contributions to food writing in South Africa by the Afrikaanse Taal- en Kultuurvereniging (ATKV). The function took place at Emily’s, Peter Veldsman’s restaruant in the V&A Waterfront, in Cape Town on 29 May 2010.

Cass Abrahams is the doyenne of Cape Malay cookery and her popular book, Cass Abrahams cooks Cape Malay, is reprinted regularly and she is recognized world wide for her expertise on the food culture of the Cape Malay community in the Western Cape. Spices are the words with which Cass Abrahams tells the bittersweet culinary tale of her adoptive Cape Malay community and she is determined that the world should know, and taste, their rich and delicious history.