The past week, all I could think about was going to the Good Food and Wine Show at the CTICC with my sister-friend, Sue. Sue is an avid blogger and media designer who loves to inspire and inspires to love. Her blog celebrates inspirational women from all walks of life and tells their stories to an international audience. She is a wife, a mother, an entrepreneur and a great friend.
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| www.suelevy.co.za |
The Good Food and Wine Show is a foodie’s paradise. This year the show boasted both local top chefs such as Jenny Morris, Pete Goffe-Wood, one of the South African MasterChef judges and on an international scale, the winner of MasterChef USA, Whitney Miller, Ariana Bundy, who has cooked for Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman and the big draw card of the show, Buddy Valastro the Cake Boss to name a few.
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| Nothing like fresh herbs from a garden. |
This event is very well attended and seeing as food is the way to a man’s heart and a necessity to a woman as well, this is a place of pure decadence and discovery. Sue and I attended the show on the second day of the fair and it was packed! Almost every stand was beautifully decorated and the foodies ranged from wanna-be’s like myself, to the fanatical and the connoisseurs of food and wine and together they all make a glorious bunch of food lovers.
Show attractions included celebrity book signings, a Lindt chocolate theatre, Fine brandies by design and tons of places to eat from such as the popular Tom Yum, Beluga and Beluga to name a few. Spekko, Sea Harvest and Cavendish Square were a few of the stands with high quality free shows with a lot of prizes and goodies to win.
Sue and I walked every square of the Good Food and Wine Show to seek out new and exciting treats to treat the taste buds. There were gadgets, kitchen ware, a gardening stand, Angels on swings and even a Maserati Lounge which I found even more strange than the swinging angels for a alcoholic beverage.
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| Sue busy creating her master piece! |
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| Cupcake Boss! |
Besides organic ice creams, numerous cake stands and chocolate on sticks to make to a mesmerizing hot drink, there was a lot of fun to be had before enjoying your buy. Sue and I decided to take up the challenge of being the Pillsbury Cake Boss by decorating our very own cupcakes. Sue decided on chocolate frosting and created an elegant pearly cupcake with love to inspire written in silver. I on the other hand opted to make my cupcake colourful and signature Mish by going for bright red M10 as per my icon or abbreviated logo and a few spirited hearts in energetic colours to keep it playful. Our cupcakes tasted as good as they looked.
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| Fudge! |
The show is for everyone aspiring to become a foodie or those who are in search of an underrated herb or spice or secret recipe or the perfect complimenting wine. Dress lightly for the heat, flat shoes for walking because you will not easily find a spot to sit. Hopefully they will think about more seating next year. Until then, we will just have to burn off the calories one step at a time!
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| Beauty is in the eye and nose of the tea maker! |
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| How cute can fondant be? |
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| Love to inspire. Inspire to love. |
Just Pursue it is a wonderful inspirational blog by Sue Levy that I highly esteem and recommend. To visit Sue’s blog about inspirational women and her mommy chronicles visit www.suelevy.co.za
For more information about the Good Food and Wine Show visit www.goodfoodandwineshow.co.za
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