Recipes to Live For: A Tannie Maria Cookbook

Tannie Maria, everyone's favourite amateur detective and agony aunt, has finally focussed on her true love – food – and written a cookbook.

Recipes to Die Live For features recipes from the first four Tannie Maria murder mystery novels by Sally Andrew, as well as some tantalising new additions.Spiced with poignant quotes from the four novels, as well as letters written to 'Tannie Maria's Love Advice and Recipe Column', and seasoned with photographs of the food and the beautiful Karoo, Recipes to Die Live For is as warm and witty as Tannie Maria herself, guaranteed to delight fans and newcomers to the series.Many of the dishes are slow foods and traditional South African recipes, but there are also quick meals and new inventions, from weerligkoek to spekboom ice cream. Whether you are craving a Karoo lamb pie or a vetkoek with mince, or are lus for a melktert or koeksister, you will find it among Tannie Maria's gastronomic delights.