Taste of Cape Town

On Thursday evening I was able to visit The Taste of Cape Town.
It was the third year I've been and every year its a little different.
I managed to sample some of the yummy food on offer and wander around with my partner, we saw  cool demos, tasted things to drink and wandered around the stalls where there was plenty to buy. Here are a few of the photos I took. As usual I took way to many and found it hard to pick which ones to show you! hope you enjoy :)

  

Bombay Sapphire Gin had a pretty blue stall with people buying cocktails from them. I didn't taste any of them but they sure looked pretty.

HESTON BLUMMENTHTAL AND GOOD FOOD & WINE SHOW

This time last week I returned home from the Good Food and Wine Show with sore feet and a head buzzing with ideas. After seeing Heston Blummenthal talk and hearing how he came up with parts of his tasting menu for his restaurant The Fat Duck in England (ranked number #2 in the world) I was so inspired! It was a shame that he didn't cook but all his talking inspired me to re-look at where i find my inspiration of how a dish is comprised. Now I won't be buying any special gyro-thingy-ma-jigs or reducing my stock and freezing it 3 times over! but I will be thinking how i can do things differently. So after Heston told us that cooking star anice with onions gave food a fragrant meaty flavour to a dish - I had to try it out. I have already since then made up an Asian lamb rib soup with star anise and corn in it, which my husband was well impressed with (10 points). Now it isn't by any means a Heston creation but it did make me think i should try out cooking with more different spices.




VENDORS

I enjoyed looking and tasting many things at the Good Food and Wine Show. Some of the display owners I recognized from places that I shop. It is always nice to see a happy friendly face and have a chat. Unfortunately I didn't get to photograph them all but I need to say hi and thanks for the chats to Lewis at Odeds Kitchen, Linda at Sublime, Ben at Le Creuset and plenty more....

    

The above pictures were taken of the Cavendish display done by Kim Gray. I found it very pretty and the actors sat around a table and pretended to have a tea party. They seemed to be enjoying themselves.. or maybe they just enjoy acting ;)

 Cute and pink - The Sweet Temptations display was so cute. They had plenty of toffee to taste in a multitude of flavors (from vanilla to turkish delight and also jelly tot flavor and many more). I think the tops the ladies all wore at there stand were so pretty- All matching pink and black and CUTE!

Wayne from Rudis Sausage Deli. Wayne is a great guy who I buy sausage from at The Earth Fair Market in Tokai on a Wednesday and a Saturday. Rudis has a large display of sausages and they use free-range pork which is anti-biotic free and hormone-Free. 

Of course there was plenty of Lindt to Taste. enough said... :) 

 

There was plenty of chocolate vendors -one I enjoyed chatting to was to Mr and Mrs Ellis of  Madecasse Chocolate. The company Bright Bean imports fair trade chocolate from Madagascar. So not only is this the right product to buy as its fair to the farmers but it tastes delicious too.

My husband bought me some goodies while we were walking around the show - one of them being this beautiful red kettle by Le Cresuset

one of the other things that I bought was a really nice pairing knife that I REALLY love! It is so handy and I've been using it ever since I got it last weekend. The people at the KAI shun knife stand were really helpful and apparently the little knife I bought has won an award so that is always a good thing. They also stocked beautiful baking equipment from the USA.

FOOD FOOD FOOD

FOOD - what can I say? I am drawn to it like a moth to a flame. And what a good hot flame this weekend is going to be. If you are in Cape Town this weekend you know why... Don't you!? You have the opportunity to visit The Good Food and Wine Show. If you haven't already heard about it, it is this huge food event that has loads of cool food related stalls and events going on - the WHOLE weekend :)

There is food to try and food to buy and food so see and food being made and food everything!  Of course I will be going!

Of all the things happening at the Good Food and wine show they have this one idea that I am particularly drawn to - They have these cooking theaters were you can watch food being prepared. One of them being Lindt (drool) and you know me and chocolate :) whats not to love right?

But there is more than just Lindt  *gasp (why who knows? -the world should revolve around chocolate) But they do have several theaters all with very interesting chefs lined up in each.
But one in particular caught my eye.... what for it.... strained silence *crickets chirping They are having Heston Blummenthal from the michelin starred Fat Duck restaurant. He is acclaimed as the coolest chef in the world - so of course I need to go see for myself- (compliments of the Good Food and Wine Show) I'll be sure to report back with my findings and tastings.



So with the Good Food and Wine Show starting tomorrow there is no excuse not to start the weekend off early and go give your taste buds a really good time out :) I'm sure going to