{"id":53157,"date":"2014-01-17T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=53157"},"modified":"2014-01-18T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T19:55:10","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-17-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-17-january\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 17 January"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhaleTales\"<\/a>Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Cape Town will see the opening of a new chefs school<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>in February, the Sense of Taste Culinary Arts Cooking School being set up by chefs Peter Ayub and Angie Boyd. \u00a0They 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.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 SAA has increased its business class and economy class fares<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to the UK and Germany by between 2 – 10%.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 ‘Ordinary Love’<\/em>, the U2 song for the movie ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom<\/em>‘ has received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, the only nomination for the movie. \u00a0It won a Golden Globe for the same category earlier this week. \u00a0 The movie cost $35 million to produce, and is South Africa’s highest grossing movie at R20 million to date.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Brenaissance has opened a new Wine Deck for wine tasting in its plum orchard in Stellenbosch. (received via media release from Brenaissance)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Laurika Rauch will be performing at Paul Cluver next Saturday evening. Cost is R280. (received via e-mail from Charl van Heyningen Enterprises)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 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. \u00a0(received via media release from FIVESTAR PR)<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com <\/a>\u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 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. \u00a0They plan to become the leading cookery school in Africa in the next five years, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,266,20,22,21,19],"tags":[20837,23407,2232,23408,17160,32366,23411,23405,32378,12139,19642,30,560,23358,23410,32404,148,23357,934,58,17003,759,23406,5,109,10067,561,32373,10,365,23409],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t