Quick, healthy and wholesome recipes for students, young adults and beginner cooks.
Yum-mo is the culmination of Carina Truyts’s own experiences as a young cook in a house full of hungry students, given credence by her training as a professional chef. This fun and contemporary cookbook will inspire beginners to jump in and discover the joys of cooking – from picnic foods for alfresco eating to baking cookies as a team. It will also show you how to turn a flop into a triumph, even in the smallest apartment or shared kitchen.
This book:
Gives detailed instructions and includes full-colour photographs
Explains basic cooking techniques
Includes recipes for everything from breakfast to soup, pizza and pasta, fish and meat mains and, of course, something for those with a sweet tooth.
Covers options for vegetarian meals, end-of-the-month budget dishes, what to do with leftovers and even hangover remedies.
Contains recipes for simple, everyday meals to feasts for entertaining friends
Truyts, who was trained as a chef at the well-known Silwood Kitchens, put together this indispensable kitchen guide while studying for her degree at Rhodes University. She is currently completing post-graduate studies at the University of Cape Town while working as a private chef for overseas visitors. In between, she spoils her friends with Yum-mo meals served on her tiny balcony.
Also available in Afrikaans as Yum-Mo: Vrolike, vars resepte vir beginners en studente.
About the author
Carina Truyts is a young food enthusiast. She was born in Cape Town but grew up in Lesotho, Bloemfontein and Pretoria. She featured regularly on kitchen counters during her childhood, and grew up in a family that spoke the language of food at the dinner table.
After schooling, she returned to the city of her birth to study at the Silwood Kitchens Cookery School. After completing the certificate in 2007, she completed her Diploma in 2008, working at diverse establishments ranging from La Colombe and Ellerman House, to Dish Catering, Fedics, and theWoolworths New Product Development department. For her third year of cookery school she worked atSingita Private Game Reserve in the Sabi Sands, where she fled from hyenas, breakfasted with elephants and had a wonderful but challenging time working in the kitchens to obtain her Cordon Bleu Grande Diplome.
In 2010 she set her eyes on combining a further education with her enthusiasm for food, and enrolled at Rhodes University where she majored in Journalism and Anthropology, also having studied geography, preliminary French, and Afrikaans and Dutch along the way. She has been involved in student gardening society Common Ground, volunteering, and writing and editing for the student newspaper The Oppidan Press’s environment section.
She then moved to the University of Cape Town for her anthropology Honours, where she did research around the experiences of food and ingestion for tuberculosis patients.
Throughout her university career she has kept her chef’s knife sharp by working as a private chef during her winter and summer holidays. In 2014 she embarks on her Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and continues to take student cooking to heart.
Article Source: http://nb.bookslive.co.za/blog/2014/04/24/carina-truyts-presents-her-cookbook-yum-mo-fun-fresh-food-for-students-and-beginners/