Cost Aus - $65
Australian Cookbook authors, Madeleine Philippe (late) and Clancy Philippe of Carrum Downs in Victoria, received Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards for their book “the Best of Mauritian Cuisine” in the World Best categories. The cookbook was self-published by the Madeleine Philippe Cancer Foundation (Aus) Inc in 2017 and has been selling very well worldwide.
The Best of Mauritian Cuisine
Australian Cookbook authors, Madeleine Philippe (late) and Clancy Philippe of Carrum Downs in Victoria, received Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards for their book “the Best of Mauritian Cuisine” in the World Best categories. The cookbook was self-published by the Madeleine Philippe Cancer Foundation (Aus) Inc in 2017 and has been selling very well worldwide.
Now in its 27th year, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards is an international competition that celebrates food and drink-related books from around the world.
Regional winning cookbooks from around the world are compared to one another by the international awards’ judging panel for the Best in the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards. Think Film Oscars, but with more reading and less talking. Once the decisions are made, the worldwide winning titles are announced at a lively awards ceremony.
How to get the book:
For non Australian residents, it is advisable that they confirm with Clancy by email clancy@cjp.net the availability of delivery services for their particular destinations. Generally, for Europe, United Kingdom, USA and Canada, costs are very similar to Australia. For others, please confirm.
The book in both hard copy and eBook formats are also available online from retailers such as Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Angus and Robertson, Booktopia and many others. ebook versions can be ordered from Amazon.
Residents of Australia can order the book online as per “Buy the Book” button above, or by contacting Clancy Philippe clancy@cjp.net directly for Aus$45 + $20 P&P = Total $65. Book will be delivered to you by Express Post. Melbourne residents can also organise pick up from Clancy in Carrum Downs, Melbourne, Vic.
Cost Aus - $35
This emotional rollercoaster describes the journey of one man losing his lifelong partner to cancer and details how he tries to come to terms with the bereavement and prepares to face life without her. It is an absorbing read, taking you right back to the early days of courtship and romance, and how the young couple married and moved from their native land in Mauritius to set up life in Australia. Cancer appears on the fringe of things with minor effect until Clancy’s wife Madeleine is diagnosed with the disease herself. The couple’s courageous ongoing battle over a number of years is detailed along with the emotional highs and lows many families face when dealing with this disease in their midst.
What makes this book stand out above others is that the author has with great openness, honesty and often raw intimate detail poured out his heart as he struggles in his efforts to save his wife from what turns out to be a terminal illness. After her passing, the reader is left feeling the emptiness, the loss and utter despair as if it was their own. The remainder of the story will surprise and provide plenty of food for thought. There are few authors who can in the simplicity of their writing make the words smile through the tears. A beautiful never ending love story, that shows great courage from both sides of the divide.
The Best of Mauritian Cuisine
- Achard de légumes (in french)
- Peanut coriander chutney
- Cucumber salad with chillies
- Curry powder hot
- Curry powder mild
- Curry paste
- Curry sauce
- Pickled chillies
- Sweet and sour sauce
- Achar caramboles (Star fruit achar)
- Chatini pistaches cotomili (in french)
- Sauce d'ail (Garlic sauce) in french
- Vegetable achar
- Coriander chutney
- Coconut chutney
- Pickled achar mangoes
- Mango kutcha
- Mazavaroo (hot chilli paste with dried prawns)
- Garlic sauce
- Chatini peau pipengaille (luffa)
- Piments confis (in french)
- Poudre cari fort (in french)
- Poudre cari doux (in french)
- Pâte cari (in french)
- Sauce cari (in french)
- Mayonnaise
- Chilli paste (piments écrasés)
- Tomato chutney (chatini pomme d'amour)
- Dried octopus salad (chatini ourite sec)
- Chatini coriandre - cotomilli (in french)
- Chatini coco - coconut chutney (in french)
- Pickled mangoes (in french)
- Chatini pomme d'amour (in french)
- Achard bilimbi (bilimbi pickle)
- Oyster and prawn bisque
- Bouillon crabes - crab bouillon
- Chinese noodle soup with chicken broth - bouillon mee foon
- Chicken mulligatawny
- Sour and hot soup
- Soupe de tomates - tomato soup with basil
- Tomato soup
- Bouillon crabes (in french)
- Etouffée de brèdes songe et sardines (stewed taro leaves with sardines)
- Choko and pork (or beef) curry
- Eggplant with pork or beef fricassée - fricassée bringeles
- Spiced boiled chickpeas - gram bouilli
- Gratin de giraumon - pumpkin gratin
- Potato chips (double cooked)
- Salade palmiste - palm heart salad
- Heart of palm with parmesan salad
- Stir fried bok choy
- Cat cat manioc - cassava stew
- Bouillabaisse - tasty seafood bouillon
- Watercress bouillon - brêdes martin & giraumon
- Bouillon poisson (optional lalos-okras) fish bouillon
- Chicken and sweet corn soup
- Rasson - spicy vegetarian soup
- Bouillon wantan - wantan soup / fried wantans
- Snake beans with pork stir fry
- Fricassée de pipengaille (luffa) avec porc
- Stir fried beef with broccoli
- Vegetarian fried rice
- Le chou au beurre (buttered cabbage)
- Vegetable bryani
- Gratin de manioc (cassava)
- Potato salad - salade de pomme de terre
- Sauce blanche chou chou (chokoes in white sauce)
- Bitter melon (margoze) with prawns stir fry
- Fricassée de pipengaille avec chevrettes sêches - luffa with dried prawns
- Bouillon brêdes
- Bouillon malgache - beef bouillon with lettuce or watercress
- Bouillon tec tec (pipi bouillon)
- Haleem soup
- La soupe Mama (fresh fish congee-Kai Chock)
- Watercress soup (soupe de cresson)
- Fricassée de chou, carottes et saucisses - cabbage & carrots with sausages
- Stir fried cos lettuce
- Sauce blanche choufleur - cauliflower in white sauce
- Fricassée le chou - stewed cabbage
- Haricots verts à l'ail - green beans with garlic
- Salade chou chou - choko salad
- Stewed okra (lalos) with red chillies
- Tomates à la Provencale
- Onion fritters (bhajas)
- Cheese sticks - batons de fromage
- Croquettes crevettes - prawn fritters
- Dhal pouris
- Tips for dhal pouris
- Dhal pouris (in french)
- Faratas indian bread (paratha)
- Gateau arouille (taro fritters)
- Pork and veal terrine
- Makatia coco - savoury bread with shredded coconut
- Makatia coco - other recipe
- Mulku (murukku)
- Pain perdu french toast
- Sticky chicken wings - marinated chicken wings
- Poulet Annabelle marinated chicken thigh fillets
- Samoosas
- Boulette poisson (fish balls)
- Garlic cream prawns
- Croque monsieur
- Croque madame
- Boulettes chou chou - meatballs with choko, prawn, pork (or beef)
- Chilli cakes - gateaux piments
- Croquettes de morue - salt cod fritters
- Bringele frire - eggplant fritters
- Piment cari frire - chili in batter
- Du pain frire - bread slices fried in batter
- French batter for fried bread, eggplant and chillies
- Poutou - steamed ground rice cakes (puttu)
- Poutou - microwave/steamer recipe (puttu)
- Ham hock terrine
- Massepain
- Naan indian bread
- Paté chaud with minced beef and bacon
- Battered zucchini flowers
- Pooris unleavened pancakes
- Soya eggs
- Octopus salad - salade ourite
- Prawn dumplings - chinese har gow
- Mashed potatoes with corned beef
- Crêpes salées
- Crêpes douces - crêpes suzette
- Croquette de volaille - chicken in batter
- Eggplant dip - aubergine
- Bean curd rolls with pork & prawns
- Egg rolls with pork & prawns
- Mauritian prawn hakien
- Mini spring rolls
- Oeufs farcis - deviled (stuffed) eggs
- Salmon patties - croquettes de saumon
- Dhall pooris (in french)
- Avocado with prawns - avocat aux crevettes
- Crispy salt and pepper squid - calamar croustillant
- Salted peanuts - pistaches salées
- Banana fritters - beignets de bananes
- Colodent peanut brittle
- Gateau coco - coconut sweets
- Ladou - besan ladoo
- Napolitaines
- Puits d'amour - custard tarts with almond pastry case
- Oundé - delicious ground rice savouries
- Gateau pâte d'amande - almond meal pastry
- Gateau patates - sweet potato cakes (in french)
- Chinese new year cake - gateau la cire
- Crème renversée - baked custard
- Gateau Gingli Rier "Sesame seed balls-Laughing Cakes"
- Gateau moutail - jalebi
- Carrot halwa dessert - poudine de carottes
- Carrot halwa - microwave recipe
- Madeleine bread pudding
- Rasgoulas - sweet powdered milk balls
- Vermicelli pudding
- Banana tarts - tartes bananes
- Gateau coster - besan burfi
- Christmas pudding - microwave recipe
- Falooda dessert
- Gateau gingli - sesame seed with red bean balls
- Kulfi ice cream - indian style ice cream
- Poudine maïs - polenta pudding
- Vindaloo (Vindaye) paste
- Swiss roll cake
- Yoghurt homemade
- Brioches hot cross buns
- Brioches à la fleur d'oranger
- Madeleines
- Beef curry
- Stir fried beef with broccoli
- Beef bryani (easy cook)
- Boudins maurice black pudding
- Char siu pork
- Chicken curry with prawns
- Civet de lièvre / lapin
- Double cooked pork
- Le foie frire - fried ox liver
- Oxtail in red wine with carrots
- Pilau - mauritian style pilaf