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title: "Watch – Retro Karoo Food: 80 Nostalgic South African Recipes"
description: "Retro Karoo Food: 80 Nostalgic South African Recipes (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2026) is the cookbook Daily Maverick's food editor, Tony Jackman, has been quietly building for years – 160 pages of recipes that shaped South African kitchens long before anyone was plating things on slate."
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# Watch – Retro Karoo Food: 80 Nostalgic South African Recipes

> Retro Karoo Food: 80 Nostalgic South African Recipes (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2026) is the cookbook Daily Maverick's food editor, Tony Jackman, has been quietly building for years – 160 pages of recipes that shaped South African kitchens long before anyone was plating things on slate.

By Tony Jackman · Published 6 March 2026, 12:07 SAST

## Content

Skilpadjies. Boontjiesop. Tamatiebredie. Waterblommetjiebredie. Ginger chicken roasted in a potjie. Tipsy tart. The dishes your grandmother made but never quite wrote down.

Yum.

This isn’t a book chasing food trends. There are no spheres, no foams, no tweezers. Just proper recipes – traditional, adapted, and invented – from Jackman's Karoo kitchen in the old Garob. The kind of food that belonged in cookbooks all along, gathered in one place… before it disappears.

[YouTube video: "YouTube video"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtoosdhZhs)

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