Leipoldt’s Cellar & Kitchen

C Louis Leipoldt

Probably best remembered as the quintessentially Afrikaans poet, Leipoldt is also famous as the pre-eminent authority on traditional Cape cuisine. His lifelong passion for food and wine, and for old recipes, prompted him to write about them extensively, and the articles translated and collected here embody a unique bredie of culinary and literary knowledge and skill.

Also available in Afrikaans as Polfyntjies vir die Proe.

C Louis Leipoldt was a South African poet, dramatist, medical doctor, reporter and food expert. Apart from poetry, Leipoldt wrote novels, plays, stories, children’s books, cookbooks and a travel diary. He is numbered amongst the greatest of the Afrikaner poets and he was described by D. J. Opperman, himself a noted South African poet, as “our most versatile artist”.