The South African Cookbook by Nokx Majozi (with Zola Nene)

Hi, I'm Zola Nene.

I'm a chef.

I'm a TV personality and a cookbook author.

And it is my absolute pleasure to be sitting next to chef extraordinaire and now cookbook author Nox Matiosi.

Yes! I'm so excited, actually.

I'm really so happy.

Siswan, before we even say anything, before I ask you anything, I want to tell you again, and you've heard me say this to you before.

I am so proud of who you are, how you represent yourself, the energy that you bring into the world, and now the way that you celebrate South African food.

Thank you for sitting with me.

amazing and me too as well likewise I think I always I don't know if maybe I say it more than I can able to express my feeling to you Zola because every time I see you it's like seeing my little sister looking at you every time I'm like oh my god Zola this is the one and only Zola even when I met you I was like oh my god I love you so much you know it's not like but yeah I'm so happy actually we are more than a friend and a family to me absolutely

feeling is mutual amazing

Right,

Knox.

Okay, so we all know you as this incredible chef, an incredible woman.

But now you're a cookbook author.

And you know, everyone knows you as this pie extraordinaire.

So everyone probably thought, oh, Knox's first book will be pies.

But you chose to celebrate South Africa and its cuisine as a whole.

Why is your first book a celebration of South African food?