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"Why pot luck? Because when you expose a book to critics and readers, there's no guarantee of a good reception. You have to take what you get. I've been overwhelmed by the reaction to Preserving a House: favourable reviews and an avalanche of heart-warming phone calls and e-mailsfrom readers. I’m happy to have made so many new friends."
 The Big Issue
31 July 2009
JOS BAKER IS REALLY ON TO A GOOD THING
Editor of The Big Issue Donald Paul interviewed Jos Baker, one of our most revered food and wine writers, when she launched her latest book, Preserving a House, at Kalk Bay Books ...
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 Sunday Weekend Argus
05 July 2009
HISTORY HOLDS OUT IN BROOKLYN
THERE ARE few examples of 300-year-old Cape cottages that have survived the vagaries of West Coast gales and human lack of interest in old, fragile buildings. Klein Zoar in Brooklyn is one surviving fisherman's home. Thanks to David & Jos Baker, who were prepared to put up with the many ...
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 Sea Rescue
Autumn 2009
LADY OF THE HOUSE
Jos Baker is a class act. Tall and slim with her long strawberry-blonde hair piled in a loose chignon on top of her head, she looks every bit the aristocratic Edwardian. Her voice is a lilting high register of well-rounded vowels. "I'm living in the new ...
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 TygerBurger
May 2009
HERO'S HOUSE STILL GOING STRONG
Almost certainly there will be people living in Brooklyn today who are unaware that their neighbourhood harbours a home of singular historical significance. The reason may be that it is a home without pretensions, far removed from the ...
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 Michaelolivier.co.za
September 2009
Preserving a House - a Living National Treasure is saving one…..
My dear friend Jos Baker, whom I once crowned a National Living Treasure for the work she has done for wine and food. ...
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 Grape.co.za, Melvyn Minnaar
May 2009
GHOSTS AT THE COTTAGE
Among the blithe ghosts the imagination will readily conjure up, particularly after sunset, at Jos Baker's remarkanle cottage, will be ...
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 Burger Eiendomme
May 2009
WOLTEMADE-HUIS IN TOEKOMS 'N LEWENDE MUSEUM
Die historiese eiendom Klein Zoar wat volgens oorlewering aan die held Wolraad Wltemade behoort het, is pas aan die NSRI ...
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 Martiens Van Bart
June 2009
NUWE KULTUURBOEKE WAT VERRYK
die gewildheid en belangrikheid van die Suid-Afrikaanse kultuur is nimmereindigend. Pas weer het verskeie pragtige boeke verskyn wat nuwe horisonne vir verskeie fasette van ...
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