185pp., colour illus., hardback, Quivertree, Cape Town, 2025
ISBN: 9781997442028
Debut cookbook from Colette Maclennan, chef-owner of The General Store, a popular café and catering company in Bree Street. Cape Town.
Includes more than 60 recipes for deceptively simple but impressive café-style food, including some of café favourites, such as The General Store’s iconic chocolate brownies.
Colette Maclennan grew up in KwaZulu-Natal and trained at the Silwood School of Cookery in Cape Town. After graduating, she worked in some of the city’s top restaurants before moving to London, where she spent a decade working at Finns of Chelsea. On her return to Cape Town she opened The General Store in 2015.