New cookbook offers taste off Mandela's table

JOHANNESBURG - Cookbooks are competing with more serious works on Nelson Mandela in South African bookshops this Christmas, after the icon's personal chef published a collection of her choicest dishes.

Xoliswa Ndoyiya's book, Ukutya Kwasekhaya (home cooking) - Tastes from Nelson Mandela's Kitchen gathers 62 recipes with short family anecdotes about the hero.

The book offers recipes from lemon Brussels sprouts to curried mango rice salad, paella, nine kinds of soup, orange turkey, various chicken dishes, and mama's meatballs.