About the Book:
It is hard to believe that twenty years have passed since Raymond & I moved to Banhoek onto the small holding that was to become Hillcrest Berry Orchards. It is only when we stop to take stock of what has been achieved in the intervening years that we realise how time has flown. One of those markers in time is our series of books about berries. In the Foreword to our first modest little book written in 1997 we wrote: “we see (the book) as a beginning of what we hope will be a continuous dialogue between ourselves and those who have enjoyed discovering all that Hillcrest Berry Orchards has to offer”. At that time we really were the best kept secret in the Western Cape, as so many visitors told us – in fact we were hardly known at all! But that fruitful dialogue developed into our second more ambitious book about berries, published in 2006. There we offered a collection of our favourite recipes from the restaurant, interspersed with all sorts of interesting facts, often passed on to us by our visitors, about those delicious, juicy berries that seem to concentrate all the goodness of summer in their gleaming little cells.
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