Product Description
The Great Marula Menu
Authors: The Lazy Makoti, J’Something, AMARULA
Format: Paperback
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best Food and Drinks Book in the World 2025
The Great Marula Menu is a delicious collaboration between Amarula and passionate home cooks from across South Africa. A curation of the best Amarula-inspired recipes shared by devoted Amarula fans, the book is a true reflection of community and a shared love of great flavours. With contributions from renowned culinary figures The Lazy Makoti and J’Something, who bring their unique talents to the table, The Great Marula Menu promises a cultural journey through diverse South African home cooking.
From tasty lunches to moreish mains, scrumptious desserts and inspired cocktails, each recipe contains either a splash or a generous pour of this world-famous liqueur. But more than this, the book is a tribute to the land where the marula trees grow.
Gathered within these pages, you’ll find a representation of this nation’s vibrant imagination – all brought together in the spirit of generosity. It’s a delightful blend of Amarula’s spirit, culinary expertise and the warmth of home cooking, inviting everyone to savour the rich tapestry of South Africa’s food culture.
About the Author
THE LAZY MAKOTI, Mogau Seshoene, is a trained chef and award-winning cookbook author. Through her brand, The Lazy Makoti, Mogau shares her passion for food and people through her live, interactive cooking lessons, as well as her extensive social-media following. She is the author of the bestselling cookbooks, The Lazy Makoti’s Guide to the Kitchen (Quivertree, 2018) and Hosting With the Lazy Makoti (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2021). She has featured on the Forbes Africa ’30 under 30’ list and the Mail and Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans list.
J'SOMETHING, or Joao Da Fonseca, is best known as the lead singer of the award-winning South African house band Mi Casa. Apart from his contributions to the music industry, J'Something is passionate about food and cooking. He is the author of Something's Cooking (Quivertree, 2016), as well as a restauranteur. His first restaurant, Something's Cooking By J, in Pretoria has since made way for the launch of his newest restaurant, Artistry, in Johannesburg. He hosted the TV show What's for Dinner and is a judge on My Kitchen Rules South Africa. AMARULA is the award-winning cream liqueur spirit, launched in South Africa in 1983. At the heart of this brand is the marula fruit. While it is loved around the world, the cream liqueur is made with real, sun-ripened marula fruit that grows wild only in one place on Earth: the community of Phalaborwa, found in the South African province of Limpopo. Amarula’s story is one of community and care, of patience and process, and of meaningful work. This is a story born of African soil, destined to be celebrated and shared around the globe. This is our spirit – the spirit of Africa.
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