Cape Talk

Eats even now, you know? So, in December, every single year, I make it a fact that we slaughter a sheep. So, in that book, the last chapter is called The Sheep That Keeps Giving. So, speaking of these rituals and traditions, the sheep that keeps giving is something I do in December as it's basically a thanksgiving, not even to ancestors or to anyone. It's a thanksgiving to family, to friends, to people around us. It's an opportunity for us in December. I always tell my husband.

That our house in December needs to be open to everyone and anyone in our lives to come feast on this sheep. And I will cook meals every single day for everyone that comes. All the kids, all my sister's kids, or my brother and his friends. Everyone is allowed to come grab a piece or a plate or something. And we're going to feed everyone and to even go as far as giving people meat because a sheep is quite big, you know. So I call it a sheep that keeps giving because even far in February, the next year, we

Always find like a piece of something in the freezer. And I'm like, you see, it keeps giving. So I was quite fascinated by the meals because you think love and lobola, and you kind of think, I guess, like, especially around like traditional ceremonies, right? Like, you know, but it's such an interesting mix of things. There's like a chagalaga pasta in here, there's a gnocchi in here, there are waffles in here, there's totally