How to Cook your Husband the African Way

This is the book Nigella Lawson should have read. How to Cook Your Husband the African Way was a best selling novel in France. And a critical success. The heroine falls in love with the mysterious Bolobolo who lives with his mother who is very attached to her chicken. Maman talks to the bird all the time. The heroine seduces Bolobolo with mouth-watering recipes but it will need more than fried antelope with pistachio nuts or stewed crocodile to turn Bolobolo into a proper man. The book is a wry look at love and few works have ever illustrated the universal truth that the way to a man s heart is through his stomach better. Beyala interlaces her story with recipes, some of which even Heston Blumenthal hasn't tried to cook. The book won a number of awards in France.