{"id":59863,"date":"2014-07-28T17:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=59863"},"modified":"2014-07-28T20:15:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T18:15:46","slug":"whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-28-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whaletales-tourism-food-and-wine-news-headlines-28-july\/","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 28 July"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

* \u00a0 Professor Francis Petersen has been appointed as Chairman of Cape Town Design NPC,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the company co-ordinating Cape Town’s reign of World Design Capital 2014, after the recent passing of its former Chairman Professor Russel Botman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Influential travel writer Sarah Khan, originally from New York, \u00a0fell in love with Cape Town and\u00a0lives in our city, having met her now husband here two years ago. \u00a0She tells a romantic \u00a0tale about her transnational love affair, engagement, wedding and reception, held on three continents! \u00a0 She has written fantastic stories about our city for leading international titles<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 South African rugby player Francois Hougaard has been appointed to work with the tourism authority of the Seychelles, to promote the island to South Africans!<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 Brent Perremore of Orphanage Cocktail Emporium, who won the National World Class finals recently, has been prevented from taking part in the Global Final in London and Scotland, starting today, ‘due to unforeseen circumstances’<\/em>. \u00a0 His place has been taken by Jeff Lopes, Head Sommelier and Mixologist from The Michelangelo Hotel in Johannesburg. (received via media release from Communication Services Africa)<\/p>\n

* \u00a0Mo\u00ebt & Chandon has relaunched its <\/span>Champagne Bar at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a>, \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>serving the champagne by the glass, as well as food pairing dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 The charity lunch for the Cape Leopard Trust<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, to be held at Leopard’s Leap on 16 August, will include an auction of items such as a Leopard bicycle from Cycle Lab, a wilderness safari, three nights stay at Sir Richard Branson’s Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in Kruger Park, a private Chef’s Table dinner prepared by Chef Michelle Theron at Pierneef \u00e0\u00a0La Motte, and a 18 litre bottle of Leopard’s Leap Cullinaria Grand Cru 2012. \u00a0Chefs Pieter de Jager of Leopard’s Leap, Neil Jewell of Bread & Wine, and Vanessa Marx of Dear Me will prepare the lunch. Charity donation attendance R1500.\u00a0 (received via media release from Amplicon PR)<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<\/a>Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * \u00a0 Professor Francis Petersen has been appointed as Chairman of Cape Town Design NPC, the company co-ordinating Cape Town’s reign of World Design Capital 2014, after the recent passing of its former Chairman Professor Russel Botman.\u00a0 * \u00a0 Influential travel writer Sarah Khan, originally from New York, \u00a0fell […]<\/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":[3,124,5794,1918,266,14,18677,20,22,21,19],"tags":[20021,36,25346,14186,32366,21281,4794,32378,16481,26733,10812,30,26729,26730,25855,312,26732,4911,17588,4894,26731,1346,1783,18038,6611,17773,21284,20859,3922,734,1072,3621,26303,5,26734,26735,32373,10,365,7120],"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