THE TASTIEST DATE ON THE SA CULINARY CALENDAR AND SHOWCASING THE LATEST GLOBAL FOOD TRENDS
Its the tastiest date on the South African foodie calendar and an event where trends are born. The new look Good Food & Wine Show kicks off in Cape Town from May 23 to May 26 and is bang on with whats hot and fabulous in food and cooking fashions.
The enduring appeal of celebrity chefs continues and appearing at the Cape Town show is the inimitable Gordon Ramsay, star of television series Hells Kitchen, The F Word, Ramsay's Best Restaurant, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon's Great Escape, Gordon Behind Bars and Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef and Hotel Hell. Chef Ramsay is famous for his temper and scathing outbursts in the kitchen. However, despite his unconventional style, he is without a doubt one of the best chefs in the world and has several successful restaurants to prove it.
Comfort food gone global and baking has taken the world by storm so heading for our shores in master patissier, author and TV chef Eric Lanlard who counts Madonna and the Beckhams among his celebrity clients. Next year the charming Frenchman will become the first chef to travel to space with Virgin Galactic.
Also coming to the Cape Town show is Australian chef and star of Bill's Food, Bill Granger who is known for delicious food that is simple, fresh and looks irresistible and more importantly is easy to create at home.
Locally sourced foods and children's nutrition are the leading trends in 2013, according to the US's National Restaurant Association's annual's hot 2013 chef surveys and the Good Food & Wine Show is bang up-to-date with these global predictions.
Getting children into the kitchen and involved in cooking for the family is the future of a healthy nation. So what better inspiration to our children than winner of the first Junior MasterChef Australia Isabella Bliss and her twin sister Sofia ,who came in the top four of the competition which propelled them to international recognition? The two will be active at the show's latest addition, the Little Chefs Kitchen.
The Bliss twins recently published a cookbook with their mother Sylvana Spina who will also be at the show on the innovative Dial-A-Mum where experts will be giving mothers advice from nutrition and what to cook that night to what to pack into a healthy but tasty school lunchbox.
Where food comes from is making headlines around the world following the horse meat scandal. The Real Food stand is a fully interactive experience covering everything from sustainability and being able to rent-a-hen for your own freshly laid eggs to how to create your own blog and share your food experiences with the world.
The Good Food & Wine Show also proudly launches the first South African Bar Show, a not-to-be-missed platform for premium brands in the bar industry.
The Good Food & Wine Show is more interactive than ever before the whole family can interact with local and global foodie personalities who are showcasing their culinary skills while exhibitors have the opportunity to communicate directly with their target market.
The Good Food & Wine Show is being partnered with Fiera Milano, the world's leading Exhibition Company. This is the recipe for all that's fabulous in the kitchen! Don't miss it.
GOOD FOOD AND WINE SHOW JOBURG CHEF BIOGRAPHIES
GORDON RAMSAY
Gordon Ramsay is recognisable around the world thanks to presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, Ramsay's Best Restaurant, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon's Great Escape, Gordon Behind Bars and Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef and Hotel Hell.
However, he is also a renowned chef and has been awarded 15 Michelin stars in total and currently holds 14. In January 2013, Gordon Ramsay was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.
Scottish by birth, Gordon Ramsay was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. An early injury prematurely put an end to any hopes of a promising career in football and he went back to college to complete a course in hotel management.
Ramsay's first years in the kitchen were spent training under culinary luminaries such as Marco Pierre White and Albert Roux in London, after which he moved to France. There he worked in the kitchens of Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon for three years to enhance his expertise in classic French cooking. In 1993, Ramsay became chef of the newly opened Aubergine in London where, within three years, the restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars.
Ramsay's first book, Passion for Flavour, was published in 1996. A number of hugely successful books have followed.
BILL GRANGER
Bill Granger is a self-taught cook whose easy-going and joyful approach to cooking is an essential element in his enduring popularity.
Born in Melbourne into a family of butchers and bakers, Bill moved to Sydney when he was 19. As an art student with a passion for food, he worked part-time as a waiter and gradually his focus shifted from the easel to the kitchen. In 1993, at just 22 years old, he opened the original bills in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, followed by another in Surrey Hills in 1996 and then Woollahra in 2005. All have become firm favourites with both locals and tourists alike.
Bill opened his first international bills in Shichirigahama, Kamakura in 2008. He then launched in Yokohama's Red Brick Warehouse in March 2010 and in Odaiba, Tokyo in July 2011. In April 2012 he brought his laid back dining concept to the fashion and culture hub of Omotesando, Tokyo. Bill's first London restaurant, Granger & Co, opened in Notting Hill in November 2011.
Bill's cookbooks include bills Sydney food, bills food, bills open kitchen, simply bill, Every Day, Holiday, Feed Me Now, Bill's Basics, Bill's Everyday Asian and Easy. They are all international best sellers having sold in excess of one million copies and have been translated into several languages. Bill also works regularly with gourmet food magazines.
Bill's popular television series bills food, Bill's Holiday and, most recently, Bill's Tasty Weekends have been viewed in 30 countries worldwide.
ERIC LANLARD
Eric Lanlard is a Master Patissier and twice winner of the prestigious Continental Patissier of the Year at the British Baking Awards who has changed the face of British Patisserie. Eric has hosted four TV series including Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard and Glamour Puds.
With both series, Eric took the audience on a journey of his awe-inspiring work as well as his favourite locations that inspire his craft, from his own cafe, the renowned Cake Boy boutique, to the illustrious patisseries of Paris. Eric is also appears regularly on other television show, with recent appearances including The Great British Bake Off and Junior Bake Off as well as Masterchef - The Professionals and Mary Queen of Shops. Books include Master Cakes (also printed as Glamour Cakes), Home Bake, Cox Cookies and Cake and his latest Tart it Up.
2013 sees Eric joining the acclaimed team of Chefs at Sea on board P&O Cruises, where he will be sharing his tips, perform baking demonstrations and talks on-board seven P&O ships around the world. Eric is brand ambassador and the face of the baking web site BakingMad.com. He also runs regular baking classes at his Cake Boy boutique, a unique destination cafe in south west London. When not baking, Eric's passions include art, traveling, cars, his home and wine.
In 2014 Eric will become the first chef to travel to space with Virgin Galactic.
ISABELLA AND SOFIA BLISS
Isabella Bliss's life changed overnight when she won the first ever Junior MasterChef Australia.
A strong family cooking tradition meant that Isabella and her sister Sofia were mixing up batter in the kitchen from as young as one, by three the girls were making fresh pasta and pizza dough and by five Isabella was experimenting with her own dishes. Learning traditional Italian recipes, particularly Sicilian dishes from her mum, nonna and aunties is one of Isabella favourite past times.
Isabella dreams of one day opening up her own restaurant with her twin sister which has already been named. Isabella will be Head Chef and Sofia will be the Manager, so passionate are they about this dream, they have already started making up menus and business cards.
The sisters helped cook up a storm at the Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food - Queensland Flood Appeal event and worked with the Starlight Foundation.
The Bliss sisters have published their first book with Penguin A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That.
Sofia Bliss beat 5 500 amateur cooks to finish in the Top 4 of the first ever series of Junior MasterChef Australia. She could out cook most adults.
Sofia's earliest memory of cooking is making pasta at three years old. Coming from Italian heritage of course some of her favourite dishes to cook are traditional Italian dishes taught to her by her Mum, Nonna and Aunties but Sofia also loves pouring over her vast amounts of recipe books to learn different cooking techniques from her favourite celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson.
Other than her cooking talents, Sofia is an avid violinist and songwriter who often composes lyrics with her twin.
TOP ATTRACTIONS AT THE 2013 SHOW
The South African Bar Show
Visitors can expect a host of vibrantly themed interactive exhibition stands that showcase the very best in spirits, liqueurs, beer and craft beers and sparkling wine brands. Visitors to the show can learn how to mix perfect cocktails, pair liquor brands with food, make the best party drinks, find out what makes a great after dinner drink, visit the connoisseurs, jazz and other lounges and much more! The Bar Show will also host the regional and national Mixology Championships.
Creative Coffee Theatre
The Creative Coffee Theatre is an interactive hands-on workshop zone where visitors and trade can learn alongside professional Baristas how to create speciality coffees, create latte art and make the perfect cuppa. This area will also be hosting the regional and national Barista Championships; the winner will represent South Africa at the world championships.
Chefs In Action Theatre
One of our most popular theatres, the Chefs in Action Theatre is where our local and international celebrity chefs will be whipping up their signature recipes and demonstrating delicious recipes visitors can recreate at home.
Little Chefs Kitchen
Sponsored by Woolworths, Junior MasterChef Australia winner Isabella Bliss and her twin sister Sofia are sure to create a stir with the young ones when they present hands-on workshops MasterChef style for children aged 4-7 and 8-12.
Brilliant Baking Theatre
Baking is gaining world-wide popularity and this theatre is devoted to all things sweet, baked and tempting. BBC celebrity baker Eric Lanlard will anchor this interactive theatre featuring baking workshops, recipe and technique demonstrations. There will be opportunities for visitors to ask the experts all the do's and dont's of baking.
Best of the Cape
Sponsored by the City of Cape Town, the best of Cape Town's restaurants will showcase their winter menus paired with the finest wines.
Tafelpraatjies
Sponsored by Clover, Tafelpraatjies is a new interactive zone launching at the Show where well known Afrikaans chefs will present options for different meal occasions. Themes include Sunday lunch as it should be; a romantic meal for two; outdoor breakfast; picnic lunch and more. An interior designer will show visitors how to theme each meal occasion.
The Real Food Theatre
Sponsored by Woolworths, this theatre will have hands on cooking workshops with a focus on natural sustainable ingredients. A must for food bloggers, workshops on food styling for your blog, food photography and how to optimally set up your blog are being held by leading bloggers.
Dial-A-Mom
Presented by magazine editors and authors who are mums, this zone will have interactive demonstrations together with Q&A's with leading nutritionists, teachers and occupational therapists on how diet affects children's behaviour and how best to feed your kids.
Spar Wine & Food Pairing
Learn how to pair a myriad of different canape's, sweet and savoury, with various wines.
DSTV Celebrity Chef Photobooth and VIP lounge
Have your photograph taken with your favourite celebrity chef!
DATES
Good Food & Wine Show Cape Town May 23 To 26 - Cape Town International Convention Centre
Good Food & Wine Show Durban August 8 To 11- Durban Exhibition Centre
Good Food & Wine Show Johannesburg September 21 To 24 - Coca Cola Dome
BOOKING AND TICKET PRICES
Tickets cost R110 for adults for R55 for children. This includes more free theatres than ever before. Visitors will also receive a coupon book that will allow for massive savings and specials.
