GOAT: Greatly Overjoyed Always Treasured

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GOAT: Greatly Overjoyed Always Treasured is a deeply personal account shaped by family traditions and years spent in professional kitchens. The author traces his journey from childhood memories around goat meat to the discipline, pressure, and learning of hotel kitchens, where technique met instinct. These experiences form the emotional core of the book, blending humour, mentorship, failures, and hard-earned confidence. At its heart, it is a chef's story of how one ingredient followed him through every phase of life, quietly shaping his palate, values, and identity. Beyond the personal, the book widens its lens to examine goat meat itself, its legacy, resilience, and overlooked importance. Long dismissed as a "cheap" protein or masked as mutton to suit refined menus, goat has sustained communities, economies, and cultures for centuries. The book explores its socio-economic role, global relevance, and culinary strength. Goat meat is not a compromise; it is bold, versatile, and deeply flavourful. Those who truly understand food have always known this. This book brings goat meat out of the shadows and places it, unapologetically, where it belongs - at the centre of the plate. Alongside vivid storytelling, the book features carefully developed goat meat recipes. Each recipe honours technique, regional wisdom, and respect for the ingredient. This is not a cookbook. It is a tribute to an ingredient that has fed generations and carried culture humbly.

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Pagina's: 154, Paperback, Verses Kindler Publication