Hunger For Freedom

Throughout the life of Nelson Mandela umngqushu, crab curry and wedding cakes have borne silent witness to moments of joy, sadness, pain and glory. Life can be measured out in mouthfuls, and in Hunger for Freedom the reader will taste the journey from prison hunger strikes to presidential banquets and beyond.  Tales told in sandwiches, sugar, spaghetti and samoosas will speak eloquently of intellectual awakenings, emotional longings and always the struggle for racial equality.

Timed to coincide with Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in July 2008, Hunger for Freedom is not so much a cookbook as a gastro-political history of the life of Nelson Mandela, with recipes, an affectionate biography to cherish and savour.

About the Author

Anna Trapido was educated as an anthropologist at King’s College, Cambridge, and as a chef at the Prue Leith Academy, Pretoria. She uses both disciplines in her food writing. She has a doctorate in occupational health/medical anthropology from the university of Witwatersrand. She teaches the Pan African Cuisine syllabus at the Prue Leith Academy.

She is currently the editor of Dine, Top 100 Restaurant Guide and recently won a gold medal  at the 2007 World Gourmand Cookbook Awards for her book To the Banqueting House; African Cuisine. An Epic Journey, co-authored with Coco Reinarhz.