Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Cape Town will see the opening of a new chefs school in February, the Sense of Taste Culinary Arts Cooking School being set up by chefs Peter Ayub and Angie Boyd. They plan to become the leading cookery school in Africa in the next five years, and want to prepare their students for the hard-working, non-glamorous, non-MasterChef SA side of being a chef.
* SAA has increased its business class and economy class fares to the UK and Germany by between 2 – 10%.
* ‘Ordinary Love’, the U2 song for the movie ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom‘ has received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song, the only nomination for the movie. It won a Golden Globe for the same category earlier this week. The movie cost $35 million to produce, and is South Africa’s highest grossing movie at R20 million to date.
* Brenaissance has opened a new Wine Deck for wine tasting in its plum orchard in Stellenbosch. (received via media release from Brenaissance)
* Laurika Rauch will be performing at Paul Cluver next Saturday evening. Cost is R280. (received via e-mail from Charl van Heyningen Enterprises)
* Neethlingshof wines will be paired with Chef Christo Pretorius’ 4-course dinner on 24 January at Azure Restaurant at The Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa, in their first 2014 Food & Wine Pairing series. The cost is R495 per person. (received via media release from FIVESTAR PR)
Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage
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