Savannah to Sea

Nico Verster has spent the past decade as a professional chef in some of the most breathtakingly beautiful locations South Africa has to offer. Three of these are at the heart of Savannah to Sea, viz. Jamala Madikwe, a safari lodge in North West Province, andBeyond’s Phinda forest and vlei lodges in KwaZulu-Natal, and Birkenhead House boutique hotel in Hermanus in the Cape. All the recipes in the book feature Nico’s culinary signature of elegance combined with pan-African cuisine ‘twists’, whether in the ingredients or the techniques, and range from classic favourites to the ultra trendy. Nico has included some often-humorous tales from his time in these varying and challenging environments. He also took the food and wildlife photographs himself.