Great Lunch - Book Launch - Beer v Wine Contest

                                                                                                  

Guest Speakers 

Cathy Marston – Wine Fundi   ~   Lucy Corne – Craft Beer Fundi

Hosting a contest of pairing one wine and one beer with each of Chef Edgar's

delicious courses during this entertaining and informative luncheon.

When              Thursday 9 June  

                       12 noon for 12h30 (starting promptly)

Where             Buitenverwachting Restaurant

Both  guest speakers have written books on their subjects.  The luncheon provides us with a unique opportunity to enjoy an amazing food and beverage experience in a fun, unique and relaxed setting.

Wine writer, wine teacher and Platter’s Wine Guide Taster Cathy Marston doesn’t believe in being a wine snob! In her first book, Love Your Wine: she enables us to get to grips with what we are drinking and takes wine drinkers on an introductory wine course.

Cathy Marston has written a book for anyone who answers yes to any of these questions:

•           Ever felt patronised by a waiter because of your wine choice?

•           Been on the sharp end of comments about your taste in wine: “Pink wine, really?”

•           Had your pronunciation of wine terms corrected?

•           Confused about whether it’s OK to drink red wine with pasta?

•           Had that uncomfortable feeling you’ve been conned into paying too much for a bottle of wine in a restaurant?

She reminds us: “The real secret of wine success is that the more you drink, the more you

know, admittedly, the less you probably remember, but hey, you can’t have everything.”

Lucy Corne is a beer Fanatic, a certified beer judge and a hophead of note. She writes about

beer, food and travel for magazines, websites, books and newspapers around the world, and

also pens a popular blog on the South African beer scene – www.brewmistess.co.za

Following the success of African Brew, the first ever book to showcase the South African

craft beer scene, beer-centric author Lucy Corne is back with a second homage to hops and

grain her newly launched Beer Safari. Join her on a nationwide ale trail, stopping for a taster 

in every brewery along the way, from stouts in Struisbaai to blonde ales in Bela-Bela; 

Beer Safari showcases South African craft beer and includes the Brewers’ stories, their often 

quirky brewing setups and of course all you need to know about their beers.

Chef Patron Edgar Osojnik has created a delicious menu:

 Amuse Bouche

Roast Cold Tomato Soup

Broiled halloumi, pesto, smoked garlic,

Semi-dried baby tomato, chorizo, basil & crostini chip

Starter

Buiten smoked Norwegian Salmon on “Cream Cheese-Butternut Crème Brule

Toasted bagel, red onions, lemon-sour cream, deep fried capers, sweet & sour pickled cucumber,

Soft-boiled quail egg, green apple

Main Course

Edgar’s Wellington Style Beef Fillet

Wild pepper demi-glace, roasted sweet corn puree, parsley–pancetta

Friandises & Filter Coffee

Buitenverwachting Wines – Craft Beers TBA

The price per person fully inclusive is R300; Payable at the Restaurant.

Email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 for more information or to book.

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I AM NO ONE - PATRICK FLANERY - REVIEW

Everybody enjoyed meeting Patrick Flanery at the May luncheon, his talk was informative and warm.

I found his book intriguing.  Professor Jeremy O'Keefe has returned to New York to take up a professorship at New York University after having spent 10 years at Oxford as a sounding Fellow and University Lecturer at one of Oxford's older Colleges.

He finds his time at Oxford lonely and the journey through his 10 years there reveal his friendships and romances none of which solve his loneliness and isolation.

His return to New York affords him the opportunity of repairing his relationship with his daughter who has married a successful magazine publisher. She and her husband are both successful and well connected, they entertain lavishly.

It is whilst living in New York that his last romance at Oxford comes back to haunt him.  'Big Brother' is watching and the ensuing happenings leave him fearful and paranoid...  What is happening? Is he going mad?

Beautifully written it is a good read which leaves the reader looking over their shoulder in this post-Snowden era...

Richard Kramer,  Diedre Shultz and Patrick Flanery

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Launching - I Am No One - Patrick Flanery

An exciting book - An exciting Author

Launching

I Am No One explores the tenuous link between fear and paranoia in our post-Snowden lives;

a world of surveillance and self-censorship, where privacy no longer exists and our freedoms

are inexorably eroded.

Wednesday 11 May 2016 at 12 noon for 12h30

Buitenverwachting Restaurant

Guest Speaker; Patrick Flanery

Set in the post-Snowden era of creeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and everyday life,

I Am No One explores how a world without privacy is a world without freedom of expression.

Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor of History, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, hoping to reconnect with his daughter and rebuild the life he left behind. He settles into the rhythm of a too-empty life, long evenings alone after a day teaching students he barely knows. Then a strange encounter with a young man who presumes an acquaintance he doesn't remember and a series of disconcerting events leave him with a growing conviction that he is being watched. The pale young man keeps appearing, a haunting figure lingers outside his apartment at night, and then mysterious packages begin to arrive.

As his grip on reality seems to shift and turn, Jeremy struggles to know whether he can believe what he is experiencing or whether his mind is in the grip of an irrational obsession.

Guest Speaker Patrick Flanery

Patrick was born in California in 1975 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Oxford. He contributes articles to a number of academic journals and he has written for Slightly Foxed, the Daily Telegraph and The Times Literary Supplement. He has published two novels to critical acclaim, Absolution in 2012 and Fallen Land in 2013. He lives in London.  He will be in Cape Town for a short time to launch his new novel I Am No One. 

The price per person for a delicious luncheon accompanied by elegant Buitenverwachting wines is R300 fully inclusive.

For more information or to book email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 .

UK Reviews:

"Patrick Flanery’s topical, multi-layered novel probes the ubiquitous culture of surveillance today and its potential ramifications for a democratic society. .... A masterful plot, a terrifying subject, and a gripping read. .... It is clear where Flanery’s sympathies lie – in the words of one character: 'A country without privacy is a country without freedom.'"

— Lucy Popescu, The Independent on Sunday

“A passionate, gripping, brilliantly voiced and scintillatingly intelligent novel about that cancer afflicting modern democratic states -- the surveillance of its own people. ... I Am No One will get under your skin … and have you looking over your shoulder.”

 – Neel Mukherjee