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Event details

Date: Thursday 27 January 2022
Time: 18:00
Venue: Exclusive Books, Rosebank Mall, Johannesburg
RSVP: events@exclusivebooks.co.za
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Penguin Random House and @ExclusiveBooks Rosebank Mall would like to invite you to the launch of Michael Olivier’s Friends. Food. Flavour. with Roelien Immelman.

Michael Olivier will be in conversation with David Batzofin on 27 January at 18:00.@manmetdiepan ?? pic.twitter.com/RJKuiE5ztW

— @PenguinBooksSA (@PenguinBooksSA) January 19, 2022

All Covid-19 protocols to be observed.

About the book

Michael Olivier says Friends. Food. Flavour. is the culmination of a long journey. He was invited by the Voyager Wine Estate in Western Australia to prepare a ‘Cape Buffet’ for the duration of the Margaret River November Wine Festival. He and his wife, Madeleine, researched, deconstructed, and rebuilt the recipes, leaving them with a collection of essentially Cape Dishes, which he wanted to publish.

Michael and Roelien Immelman, a very talented illustrative designer, agreed to go in a partnership on Friends. Food. Flavour. He included some of his friends’ recipes and the book was born. The dishes are eclectic with Roelien’s superb illustrations and Mike Robinson’s sensitive photography.

About the author

Michael Olivier is a well-known South African Wine commentator. Trained at the Cordon Bleu school of Cookery in London, he ran some of the Cape’s most popular restaurants. Michael was a Chef on the Expresso Breakfast TV show for a number of years. He has published five books. He remains active on his website, and social media and broadcasts regularly on wine. Michael and Madeleine live in Johannesburg.

About the illustrator

Roelien Immelman is an illustrative designer. She shares a mountain house in Taipei with her ceramic artist husband, De Waal Immelman, their baby Miems, and Bleep the cat. A graduate in Information Design from Pretoria University, Roelien has worked in London doing illustrations for Michiko Koshino, a prominent Japanese fashion brand. Always armed with sketchbook, pens and ink, as well as her unique point of view and keen eye for detail, she has explored, cooked and illustrated her way through the culinary landscapes of Europe and Southeast and East Asia.

Categories Cookery Lifestyle Non-fiction South Africa

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