South Africa - Tamarind Lamb with ‘Farmer’s Beans’ Potato Mash and Miele Corn Bread
South Africa is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse countries on Earth. Named in 1910 for its location on the southern tip of Africa, its name is relatively new but this land has old bones and long traditions. In fact, South Africa recognises 12 official languages, and has several unofficial languages, giving its people many ways to remember, share and keep stories. The land we now call South Africa was inhabited by diverse Indigenous people for over a thousand centuries before Dutch Spice Traders sailed in in the mid 1600s to establish a farm and ‘refreshment station’ to supply fresh food and water to their ships carrying culinary spices from Java (in Indonesia) to Europe. That farm changed the destiny of South Africa forever because the Dutch Spice Traders didn’t just want to have one farm; they wanted it all. The Dutch Spice Traders decided that South Africa was an ideal half-way point on the trade route and that the location was ide...