Karen Dudley is on a mission to improve people's dining experience, one meal at a time. Once proprietor of the beloved and groundbreaking eatery The Kitchen in Woodstock, she now spends her energy creating and developing menus for restaurants and hotels around South Africa.

When she's not at work spreading knowledge in commercial kitchens in the Waterfront or boutique game lodges deep in the bushveld, she will be found in her own kitchen at home. This is where she creates entirely new recipes and tweaks old favourites into delicious new variations. And when the stack of recipes is tall enough, she puts them into a new book.

People who are lucky or clever enough to get their hands on a Karen Dudley cookbook can then join Karen on her mission to make food that is more delicious, stylish and doable. Karen has a dedicated following of cooks using and sharing her range of flavours and tastes... With this new book, we take our community upwards to the next level.