The much vaunted East Coast Tables cookbook by authors Erica Platter (our own food expert) and Gwyn Platter, with photography by Clinton Friedman is selling like hot cakes . . . it’s even outselling Jamie Oliver.
The book is currently the best-selling cookbook in local Exclusive Books stores, pipping Jamie Oliver’s latest title into second place. While Jamie’s new book is breaking all sales records in the UK, East Coast Tables is the top seller in KZN.
This success comes hot on the heels of another recent triumph for East Coast Tables – it has won the South African section for “Best Local Cuisine” cookbook in the Gourmand World Cookbook competition, and goes forward to the final round in Paris, to compete against other winners in this category for the “Best in the World” title.
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According to BizCommunity, 154 countries represented by food and wine books in this prestigious competition range from Argentina to Venezuela, and include all the usual “big guns” such as France, India, China, US and England plus more exotic entries like Bhutan, Laos, Ghana and Venezuela.
Erica Platter, a regular contributor to The Ridge magazine and who acts as a contributing editor to the title, says: “While this is only the first round of the competition, it does recognise what our book is all about and proves what we all know – that KZN is not only better than the rest of the country at rugby, but our local food is also more fabulous!”