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Gourmand Best In The World Award Winning Book

“Maddy and I would love you to write a preface for the Cookery Book we are producing”. Clancy’s email did not really surprise me as I am used to him speaking of his dearest wife, Madeleine, in the present tense. Although physically departed from this world, Maddy’s spirit will live on forever for those who loved her…and still do.

“All, …everything that I understand…I understand because I love you”. These words from none other than Victor Hugo – whose mother, by the way, was born in Mauritius – must have been written for Maddy and Clancy whose love affair has survived the ravages and worldly pressures of time and even the harsh reality of death.

Clancy keeps her alive, and cheerful, in all his actions and writings and one cannot but feel the communion – that united them all these past years – continue to flow into his daily life.

So what better way to honour her memory than to publish a book on her inimitable cuisine? The cuisine of her homeland, Mauritius, one of the rare places in this world where different ethnic groups live in near-perfect harmony. Sharing their cultures and religions whilst maintaining a very strong sense of belonging to a little island-dot lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean. A very special island, steeped in history, which appears on the first world map ever published – Alberto Cantino’s planisphere (1502). No Australia yet and only pieces of America…!

These diverse elements from Asia, Africa, India and Europe (France in particular) find their way in the cuisine of Mauritius in a happy, spicy and often intriguing blend… always succulent.

Maddy had mastered the subtleties of this cuisine and in this book, she reveals through her soul mate Clancy, the secrets of its intricacies leading to the final taste explosion.

Those who were not fortunate enough to have crossed her path will have the lucky opportunity, here, to discover the jovial and fiery character mingled with her incredible warmth and generosity that pervade these recipes. She would desperately want you to enjoy them, as sharing was an innate part of her persona.

This is not just any Cookery Book….this one was written in Heaven !

Marcel Lindsay Noë

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