Revised, updated and completely redesigned to echo its original smaller and thicker format, the new edition combines a readable, modern feel with the classic look of the original.

As indispensable to the seasoned cook as to the beginner, it contains everything you need to know about cooking – from measuring ingredients and operating ovens to the preparation of vegetables and meat or how to freeze foods – along with more than 700 recipes, specially chosen and tested – from breakfasts to mixed drinks. A large number of the dishes are beloved South African favorites. It is the one cookery title no South African home can do without.

For this new, updated edition, her daughter, a home economist like her mother, worked through the text and modernized it where necessary without losing the essence of the Cook and Enjoy we all know and love.

Mrs. S.J.A. DE VILLERS is a South African icon. She is the one who taught the nation to cook. In 1951 she published the first edition of Kook en geniet with the help of her friends and family. Until 1990 she handled everything from printing to distributing of these immensely popular recipe books. Both S.J.A. de Villiers and her daughter live in Stellenbosch.