ELEPHANT IN THE KITCHEN

Recipes from the wilderness.
By Craig Higgins, Beverly and Dereck Joubert

Printed mid to late 2005. Price US$ 70 per copy.


It's a wild adventure. It's a cookbook with recipes from the Wilderness.

Craig Higgins. Chef extraordinaire, Crazy Scott, bush lover, creator of many a wonderful meal at Wilderness Safari's Mombo Camp is completing his long awaited book. The book is a joint venture with Beverly and Dereck Joubert, two of National Geographic's finest wildlife photographers and filmmakers. So this is more than just a cookbook with scrumptious recipes.

It is a journey through what it takes to produce meals in this truly remote location at a worldclass level. It is a journey into the heart of the lightness that is Craig's life of beating off elephants that invade the kitchen, fighting to defend his kitchen from the local hyenas and enjoying the passing graces of the camp leopard, all while trying to produce five star food.

Written with humour and enjoyment the book is also a guide to producing some of those great meals, so that you can take a sprig of African recipes, a breath of her aroma and the salivating tastes of her food. Learn how to prepare a Babotie spring roll and a Wild mushroom Risotta, or an Amarula caramel chocolate sauce for your pancake… or what to do when a monkey swoops down and steals a cigar out of your salmon cigars, what to do when your local hyenas eat the Easter eggs, and why you shouldn't cry when the milk is spilled.
It's a wild adventure.
It's a cookbook.
And most of all it's a celebration of living in Africa and being part of her ethos, not apart from it, something we can all take back with us wherever we go.

To pre-order please make use of our online ordering form or you can e-mail Lorna at lornagib@absamail.co.za

Folks who pre-order and pre-pay will receive a signed copy of the book.