Lõuna Aafrika rahvusköök
common merger of east and west, but north and south: marinated ostrich carpaccio at
Sage in Pretoria, oxtail ravioli with saffron cream sauce at Bartholomeus Klip in
Hermon on the Cape west coast, even Tandoori crocodile at the Pavilion in the
Marine hotel in Hermanus.
There is crocodile on the menu and kudu, impala, even warthog at a number of
restaurants that offer game. But there won't be seagull, mercifully, or penguin. Both
were staple foods for the strandlopers (or beachcombers) - a community of Khoi who
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
annaabi.ee 
