Magdaleen Van Wyk

Magdaleen van Wyk is the author and co-author of a number of cookbooks. After obtaining her degrees at the University of Stellenbosch, she completed a post-graduate Diploma in Hospital Dietetics at the Medical School, University of Iowa, in the US. Now retired, Magdaleen was a well-known lecturer in Foods and Nutrition at the Departments of Consumer Science and Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch. She has been awarded medals by Silwood Kitchen in Cape Town and the SA Brandy Foundation. Food, wine and entertaining play an important part of her social life.