Out of Africa

I HAVE just received a lovely book - Recipes from an African Kitchen, by Josie Stow and Ian Baldwin - from former Ballymaloe student Jane Oxborrow.

Londoner Jane has been working in the Grumeti Game Reserve in Serengeti, Tanzania, since 2004, and has fallen in love with Africa.

Food is really precious in Africa. It is also a labour of love - whether you are sowing seeds, rearing livestock, gathering wood to fuel the fire, or pumping water and carrying it back home.