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TeamCooking™ and Wine paring at The Giggling Gourmet® CooksPlayground™

Team of the leading International HPB surgeons having a blast during their conference held in Cape Town during April 2011 more info see this link: www.gigglinggourmet.com/teamcooking.aspx 

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The Natural and Organic Show

The Natural and Organic Products Exhibition caters for environmentally aware, intelligent consumers and trade representatives looking for sustainable solutions to suit their changing life style and work style requirements. Key concerns are health, safety and the environment which are driving consumers to be more informed and to make better choices.

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Cooking-Classes

Cooking classes every Monday evening at the CooksPlayground except on public holidays and between mid November until Mid January

Our next Sushi Making class is taking place on the 8th of March 2012

PRICE: R390-00 per person Time: 18.00 for 18.30 The class will entail the cooking of the rice, the prepping of the vegetables, the cutting of the fish, and then the making of the various sushi variations, ending with the enjoyment of your efforts

· Only once your non-refundable payment is made will your place be booked.

    NB!vouchers are also available for all classes.

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This Weeks Review

About The Décor…

Restaurant reviews need to be handled with extreme care. Invariably, great financial investment has been made and the venture is usually a long-held dream of the owner. The reviewer, effectively, wields the power to crush such dreams and ultimately affect the lives of these entrepreneurs. When one reads a restaurant review, where the writer begins by spending an inordinate amount of words describing the décor, one knows that the establishment is doomed.

Recently I donned my red heels and I went along, at the request of friends who need a bit of free PR, to a recently opened ‘bistro’ for an early supper. In the interests of kindness, I won’t mention the suburb...

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On The Table

About Books...

Some days I don’t crack a luncheon invitation and can allow the red shoes a day of rest, loll about on my sofa with a pot of tea and indulge in a good read.

For many years, I have leaned toward literature where food is the supporting act.  Not cookery books per se; but novels with an underlying thread of the everyday preparation of meals and larder stockers.  Books like Zuretha Roos’s The Saffron Pear Tree and Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Things Past; which I first read as a library books and so loved that I had to buy my own copies, to dip into over and again...

Writer: Cindy Taylor
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Welcome to the World of Giggling Gourmet

Jenny Morris - AKA The Giggling Gourmet - is one of SA's most-loved food personalities she is an author, magazine writer, radio and TV presenter, celebrity chef, teacher and culinary tour guide who has had an ongoing love affair with food since she was a child, when she started making mouth watering treats for school fundraisers.

It's a love affair in the true sense of the word, one that employs all the senses.

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