VEGGIELICIOUS, plant-forward recipes from the tshemo of my dreams

192pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2021

Mokgadi Itsweng’s debut cookbook.

Tshemo is Sepedi for 'garden'.

Mokgadi Itsweng has worked in the food industry for more than 17 years. In 2006 she opened the restaurant, Lotsha Kitchen and Cocktails, where she exposed South Africans to Pan-African cuisine. She was a contributing food editor for Tribute magazine and the Food Editor for True Love magazine (where she received the 2013 Galliova Food Writer of the Year Award) and Destiny magazine. She was one of five chefs chosen by the International Marketing Council to represent South African cuisine at the 2010 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Mokgadi is the Creative Director and head chef for the food company Lotsha Home Foods and is a member of The Chef’s Manifesto, a global movement of chefs championing the United Nations Sustainable Goals to end world hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by 2050.