Lõuna Aafrika rahvusköök
lived on the Cape shore - and the Dutch and Portuguese sailors who made landfall
there.
It was the search for food that shaped modern South Africa: spices drew the Dutch
East India Company to Java in the mid-1600s, and the need for a half-way
refreshment stop for its ships rounding the Cape impelled the Company to plant a
farm at the tip of Africa. There are sections of Commander Jan van Riebeeck's wild
almond hedge still standing in the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town.
That farm changed the region forever. The Company discovered it was easier to bring
in thousands of hapless slaves from Java to work in the fields than to keep trying to
entrap the local people, mostly Khoi and San, who seemed singularly unimpressed
with the Dutch and their ways. The Malay slaves brought their cuisine, perhaps the
best-known of all South African cooking styles.
The French Huguenots arrived soon after the Dutch, and changed the landscape in
annaabi.ee 
