Cooking with Jenny Morris
Published: January 1, 2012 (UK edition) / October 25, 2011 (original) by Sunbird Publishers Ltd
Author: Jenny Morris
Jenny Morris, the irrepressible Giggling Gourmet, welcomes you into the warm, fragrant kitchen of The Cook’s Playground, her culinary school based in Cape Town. Drawing on the treasured childhood memories that shaped her abiding love of food, Jenny has created a definitive collection of taste sensations.”
This cookbook represents Morris’s most personal and comprehensive work to date, directly connecting her cooking school experience with her publishing career and emphasizing the autobiographical elements that inform her culinary approach.
The cookbook’s emphasis on “treasured childhood memories” and seasonal appropriateness (winter vs. summer dishes) shows Morris’s maturity as a cookbook author, moving beyond simple recipe collection to creating a cohesive culinary narrative. The variety of difficulty levels—from accessible breakfast dishes to more adventurous preparations like oysters with pomegranate—demonstrates Morris’s understanding of her diverse readership.
