Tanya Kruger, talented chef at Hunter’s Country House outside Plettenberg Bay, has been selected as one of the chefs to represent South Africa in the IKA Culinary Olympics in Germany in 2012, reports The Herald.

Kruger is the winner of the South African 2008 Chaine des Rotisseurs Young Chef’s competition, and represented this country at the international competition in Paris last year.

For the next four years the chefs’ team will practice, meeting monthly.   The Culinary Olympics is the most prestigious international chefs’ competition.  Last year, the South African team was one of only two countries to win a gold medal.