Notes from Michael Olivier's Kitchen Table

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Food and Wine giveaway! A restaurateur remembers, a beautifully illustrated and designed book by Michael Olivier, has captured the very essence of local cooking and food. In it Michael takes the reader on a lively and engaging ramble through a lifetime that has revolved around food and wine, people and places. As a new year treat the publishers, Double Storey, are giving away two copies of this must-have food book! Click here to find out more about the book and how to win it!

Michael Olivier trained at the London Cordon Bleu Cookery School and is a well-known Cape food and wine fundi. Michael has worked in and managed such well-known places as Lanzerac Hotel in Stellenbosch and was Public Relations Manager for the top marque wine estate Boschendal. Having run three restaurants - Paddagang in Tulbagh, The Burgundy in Hermanus and Parks in Constantia - and featured in the national top ten restaurants, he is now a food and wine writer, broadcaster and hospitality industries consultant, both locally and on a project in Western Australia. Michael also imports specialist cookery equipment. His book Michael Olivier - a Restaurateur Remembers is published by Double Storey Books. His day job is that of wine and food consultant and trainer to Pick 'n Pay, a national supermarket chain.

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