A01=Kamini Pather
Author_Kamini Pather
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Cookery
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Food and Drink
Food writing
Health and wholefood cookery
National and regional cuisine
TV celebrity chef cookbooks
Product details
- ISBN 9781485901136
- Dimensions: 210 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
- Publication City/Country: ZA
- Product Form: Hardback
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The judges on MasterChef South Africa kept telling Kamini Pather to ‘put yourself on the plate’ and she believes that to her core. Growing up in ’90s South Africa and being almost the only ‘person of colour’ at her school, she has vivid memories of how different the dining room tables between her home and the homes of her friends were. To fit in with that multi-cultural world, her mum started including a fusion lunchbox, and Kamini felt a sense of well-meaning ‘otherness’, as though she was part of a world sandwiched between her grandmother’s masala and her competitive figure skating.Typically self-deprecating (she refuses to call herself a chef), Kamini’s life changed dramatically after her Masterchef SA win -- from an aspiring food writer to being in demand as a TV food show host and food-travel show producer on hits such as Girl Eat World. Fast forward through a few media awards (Cosmopolitan Women of the Year, Glamour Women of the Year, an SA Style Award), some spectacular campaigns (ambassador for the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, Yuppiechef Online Cooking School), Kamini found herself spending the Covid-19 lockdown back in Durban with her family and created a short ebook called Eat Glocal, which was shortlisted for a Gourmand Award, and precipitated the need to publish an actual cookbook -- All Dahl’d Up. And if that isn’t enough, Kamini has also found the time to be a serious runner and an Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach. This Cape Town-based resident chef on Ready Steady Cook is also in the final phase of her Master’s degree in Psychology.
Kamini Pather first exploded onto the South African culinary scene as a participant and winner of the second series of MasterChef South Africa. Since then, her life and cuisine journey has taken her down various paths, and although she always remains grounded and grateful to her heritage, she is not solely defined by it. As Kamini herself says, ‘All Dhal’d Up is a collection of ancestrally-derived recipes that have been updated through ingredients and techniques – the old world has been given some fancy.’ The concept of good-mood food leans gently into health, while ‘Indian-ish’ is a perfect nod to her ancestry but fused with other cultures and their influence on the food she likes to eat. So, although you will find traditional recipes, such as potato curry with nigella seeds, hot water roti and rasam, as well as the Sunday-standard meal of chicken curry, they are flanked by the delights of cauliflower rice lamb biriyani, panko-crumbed patha wraps, bacon dhal, pudhina hummus and rosewater ice-cream sandwiches with pistachio cookies.
Ever mindful of the demands of busy lives and consciences, Kamini has ensured that the recipes are simple to follow and are mindful of healthy ideals and sustainably sourced ingredients.
