Toffie Food

Frazer Parfum is a small perfume house based Cape Town.

Tammy Frazer as head of the house personally creates all perfumes by hand. As a perfumer Tammy works only with natural and organic raw materials sourced on quality by herself directly from the farmers around the world.

Her ready to wear collection is called Chapters and is inspired by Tammy’s expeditions travelling to the source of the raw materials, meeting the farmers and discerning their methods of farming, harvesting and distillation.

These editions retail at the Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie in Harrods London. A private room on the fifth floor of Harrods this room is homage to creative perfumery. The newly launched Annindriya Perfume Lounge in Oud-Zuid Amsterdam has become the second retail environment for Frazer Parfum.

Each Frazer Parfum flacon is hand-blown by local leading glass artist David Reade in Worcester and swathed in silk couture. Frazer Parfum showcases local design to present the best of what we have in South Africa to an international audience while at the same time championing local entrepreneurship. Frazer Parfum cherishes and nurtures workmanship, beauty and traditions.

Alongside the Chapters, Tammy consults privately to clients, creating truly bespoke scents. This process is a patient journey through time analyzing not only the scent families available to compose the single edition but also the history, provenance, travel and life style of the muse. It is as educational as it is rewarding.

Commercially, once in a while, an opportunity arises that compliments the ethics and creativity of Frazer Parfum. Each opportunity is carefully discussed and agreed to only on a case by case basis.

Paulaner Bräuhaus in Cape Town first opened its doors in 2001 and is situated in the Clock Tower Precinct of Cape Town’s Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in view of the working harbour and seals which can be observed from our large beer garden. A pleasant, casual restaurant and beer garden await your arrival – as do the freshest Bavarian Maß of beer and traditional “Bayrische Geschmack”, or cuisines. Our mircrobrewery’s storage cellar is the only one worldwide below sea level where beer is brewed on site – by our very own German brewmaster!

Julie Powell is an American author best known for her book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. In August 2002 Powell began the Julie/Julia Project, a blog chronicling her attempt to cook all the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The blog quickly gained a large following, and Powell signed a book deal. The resulting book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, was published in 2005. The paperback edition was retitled Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.

A film adaptation, also based on Julia Child’s autobiography My Life in France, directed by Nora Ephron, and titled Julie & Julia, was released August 7, 2009. Amy Adams stars as Powell and Meryl Streep as Julia Child.

Powell’s second book, Cleaving: a Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession, which details the effects on her marriage of an affair she had after the first book’s publication, as well as her experiences learning the butcher trade, was published November 30, 2009.

Featured in Phaidon’s COCO as one of 100 Contemporary chefs by 10 World-Leading masterchefs:

Tung-Yuan Lin was born in 1973 and has been working in the coffee industry for twelve years. He cofounded the Italian-style GaBee, in Taiwan in 2004. There he serves innovative beverages and foods showcasing coffee, with specialities such as caffe batata, a rich, balanced coffee infused with the flavour of sweet potato, an important regional ingredient in Taiwan. Winner of the first and third Taiwan Barista Championships, he represented Taiwan in 2007 at the World Barista Competition. Since then he has been instructing in professional coffee-making, judging barista competitions, and demonstrating his skills all over Asia. Tung-Yuan Lin is renowned for the delicacy and finesse of his coffee, and his pioneering work in promoting excellent coffee-making all over Asia.

Anna Trapido was born in England to South African parents. She studied anthropology at King’s College Cambridge and has a PhD in medical anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. For several years she worked in rural hospitals in the Eastern Cape Province where she ran occupational health clinics for ex-mineworkers. By the time she was 25 years old, she was the acknowledged expert on nasty forms of phlegm that can happen to good people if they work on bad mines.

While she loved the patients, she gradually came to realize that just because you enjoy chatting to old men in hospital queues doesn’t mean that you are actually interested in medicine. She noticed that the bit of her job that she liked best was giving the patients lunch - which was technically not part of her job at all.

So, she retrained herself as a chef at the Prue Leith College of Food and Wine, South Africa and has subsequently worked in pastry and garde manger kitchens in South Africa, Switzerland, India and England. She can do anything from constructing über poncy wedding cakes to making sausages. She represented South Africa at the Ten Years of Democracy Festival, Taj Hotel, Calcutta, India and was flown to London to cater the 2006 Chelsea Flower Show after party at South Africa House.

She now works as a free lance food writer, broadcaster, food stylist and menu consultant. She was the editor of Dine; Top 100 restaurant guide and has a bi-monthly food slot on Gauteng’s 702 Talk Radio. She has recently been commissioned to create and star in 13 part television series on the food of Johannesburg.

In 2007 her first book, To the Banqueting House; African food an epic journey (written in collaboration with Burundian Chef Coco Reinharz) won the gold medal at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in Beijing. Her second book Hunger for Freedom; the story of food in the life of Nelson Mandela (2008) won the Special Jury Prize at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards, Paris and was long listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non Fiction Award. She is currently working with Nelson Mandela’s chef on a second Mandela related food book and is also putting together an eco-epicurean guide to being green and gourmet in South Africa.

Her best thing is to mooch and munch her way around inner city Johannesburg where you not only find the best food in South Africa but also the cutest chaps in the pointiest shoes.

Eloise Mitsuko Alemany is a creative consultant and publisher based in Buenos Aires. She was born to French parents in Tokyo, where she lived until the age of 17. She completed her studies in Art History and Visual Arts at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), before moving to London, where she acquired experience in fashion communications and publishing. Her 6 years at i-D magazine saw her working alongside creative director, Terry Jones, as well as managing a number of successful books, events and international exhibitions. She has lived in Buenos Aires since 2006, where she works as a freelancer on projects related to art & design, food and Argentine culture. In 2008, Eloise published the book What Surrounds Us Reflects Us: Collections of Contemporary Argentine Art (Ediciones Lariviere), in a bilingual, Spanish and English edition, followed by Libro de cocina: Relatos argentinos (December 2009). Her latest book, Cuaderno dulce: Postres franceses de Pascale Alemany (published in June 2010) compiles her mother’s recipes of French desserts. Alongside the editorial projects, Eloise has produced a number of events linked to food. In 2009, she created Noches Grimod, the first pop-up restaurant in Buenos Aires and in December 2010, she set up a pop-up store called Souvenir with fashion stylist Caro Urresti and photographer Ana Armendariz.

Kobus van der Merwe, is a South African chef who cooks with local ingredients in his Paternoster restaurant at Oep ve Koep.
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