Cooking in the Photographer`s House
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Cooking in the Photographer`s House
Advance Information Cooking in the Photographer’s House Lynn Oberholzer Photography by Obie Oberholzer 978-1-4314-1068-2 • Cookery • Paperback • 255x190mm • 224pp • R280.00 • August 2014 • World Rights NEW TITLE “When you’ve been married to a photographer for 44 years, you tend to see things through his eyes; colour and design affect you, no matter where you are, but especially in the kitchen, where I often call Obie to relish the colours on the chopping board or the beauty of a perfect cheesecake.” – Lynn Oberholzer Join us for a meal at the photographers home. It will be a long meal filled with reflection and laughter and is a visual journey of their travels, life style and surroundings. The food is simple and inspired and Obie’s photographs are a feast for the eye. Living in the dreamy location of Nature’s Valley in an old beach house renovated to suit their lifestyle, this recipe book developed into something that shares their combined passions of images, food and nature. Lynn’s cooking is peasant style, food with emphasis on fresh, quality raw ingredients, food which anyone can cook. “This book is a celebration of our lives together – how we live, where we’ve come from, family and friends, appreciation of life, from the call of the ocean, the spirit of the forest, to the food on the table.” ABOUT THE AUTHORS Lynn Oberholzer is a retired language teacher/sports coach with a life long passion for cooking. During her childbearing/raising years, she started a catering business from home in Grahamstown, also doing 10 years of pop-up restaurants during the Grahamstown Festival. Now that she has retired from teaching and has moved to Nature's Valley, she has become Obie's assistant. Obie Oberholzer has done 11 coffee-table books and always wanted to do a book on Nature's Valley, which has been a home from home for the past 40 years. Obie and Lynn have now combined their passions and produced a cookbook with a difference, combining landscapes of the valley with Lynn's food and images of their lifestyle. Price and cover subject to change. Jacana Media For product information & sales queries: [email protected] Tel: +27 011 628 3200 Fax: +27 011 482 7280 Sales Fax: +27 011 482 7282 On the Dot [email protected] Tel: +27 021 918 8810 Fax: +27 021 918 8815 ISBN 978-1-4314-1068-2 www.jacana.co.za SPREADS 25 36 37 | SOUPS MAINS Baked Fresh Fish Fresh fish is at its best if left whole and roasted to perfection in the oven. For those who love the taste of fish, this is the ultimate taste sensation. fresh fish, cleaned and gutted olive oil, for coating fresh rosemary 1–2 lemons, for slicing and the juice - coarse sea salt - - - - Preheat the oven to 200°C. Coat the fish with olive oil, put fresh rosemary in the cavity with a few slices of lemon and sprinkle with coarse sea salt. Bake for about 20 minutes – time will depend on the size of the fish, but you do not want to overcook it. When the flesh flakes easily and is white, it’s done. Squeeze fresh lemon over the fish as it comes out of the oven and serve immediately. TIP: In days gone by, Obie did a lot of spear fishing. We sometimes did the fish on the coals, which was also good. On a trip to Madagascar with friends in 1975, we camped on the east coast. Obie and Gerrit shot fish every day and we cooked them on the coals in tin foil, until our tin foil was stolen. This meant that we had to do without it, but it was a blessing in disguise. The increase in flavour without the foil was remarkable. I have never used foil for fish again. My younger son Jesse says you should never add fresh lemon juice before cooking as this in itself cooks the fish – you can marinate it in lemon if your fish is fresh and then you won’t need to cook it at all! We did this once with a Japanese hitchhiker and simply dipped the marinated fish into soya sauce. This was of course before we had discovered the tastiness of raw fish. 54 | PREVIOUS SPREAD: Lynn running on Nature’s Valley beach. 55