Boerewors

Why it's worth your time

The name means 'farmer's sausage,' and it belongs to the Afrikaner farming tradition that grew out of Dutch sausage-making. The coriander seed that defines its flavour travelled through the Cape Malay kitchen. It's coiled, not linked, and meant to cook over open coals until the casing crisps. Buy it from a butcher who makes it daily — never a vacuum pack — and eat it straight off the braai in a piece of bread with tomato-and-onion relish.