When East London-born food writer and editor Louisa Holst won the South African Book Awards prize for adult non-fiction for The South African Air Fryer Cookbook earlier this year, she had no choice but to pen another book to meet the demand for her delicious recipes.Holst, 49, whose grandparents once ran the landmark Arminel Hotel in Hogsback, studied food and clothing technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology before landing a job as a magazine food editor.
We’re all getting to know our air fryers, and they’re not all the same. But they have commonalities, and Louisa Holst has an inside track on getting the best out of your countertop convection oven.
December is pretty much here; good cheer, warmer weather, lunchtime feasts, family, Christmas decor and cheery tunes filtering through shopping malls are all to be expected at this time of year.
The huge popularity of the air fryer has seen a flurry of new South African recipe books to feed the demand for new ideas. Hilary Biller put the latest to the the test.