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Our own Arnold wins Chef of the Year award!
On Saturday 5th July at a glittering cocktail party at the Sandton Convention Centre, Arnold Tanzer was declared winner of the coveted Sunday Times Chef of the Year award, taking home a tasty R30 000 prize and a top of the range Elba stove. This award crowns a long list of achievements that includes cooking on the high seas, overseeing the gastronomic pleasures of private game reserves across Africa, managing Food on the Move, his food and event company and ‘The Delicatessen’, his very upmarket food store and restaurant.
A calm and unflappable Tanzer went head to head yesterday morning in a cook off with fellow maestros Carl Tichart, Chantel Dartnell, Andrew Atkinson and Vanie Padayachee in front of a packed food auditorium to decide who would be the Sunday Times Chef of the Year. The top five prepared a six-course degustation menu for six people, including paired wines and non-alcoholic beverages to complement their creations. If that was not difficult enough, they had to do so in front of both judges and an admiring audience. None disappointed, whipping up exotic and fanciful creations to wow the crowds and judges alike.
After much deliberation and earnest tasting by the judges, the award of Sunday Times Chef of the Year went to a beaming Tanzer whose culinary creativity is inspired by conjuring up menus that eloquently demonstrate his innate feel for food earning himself the title of Chef of the Year.
When asked about his win, Arnold said ““ I am absolutely chuffed! A big thank you must go to my wife, my fantastic partner Rudi, my chefs Tammy, Freddie, Salmon. Without them, I am no chef. To my competitors, I would like to say thanks for giving me a sleepless night last night - well done to you all. ”
Marlise van Lingen won the prestigious Sunday Times Young Chef of the Year Award. Five young chefs competed in this category on Friday where their culinary skills, creativity and innovation were tested before a panel of discerning judges. Her youthful culinary prowess won her the R 15000 prize and more excitingly a bursary from the prestigious Prue Leith Chef’s Academy worth R 110 000.
A new addition to Sunday Times Food Awards was the Chef School Challenge. Teams of two from five chef schools pitted their skills against each other in a tense competition that saw Silwood School of Cookery in Rondebosch emerge as the top chef school. Student trainees, Ian van der Walt and Simphiwe Siyata, represented Silwood.
It’s my Business, the popular Sunday Times Supplement aimed at promoting small businesses also honoured the Food Entrepreneurs Award winners designed to recognise the crème de la crème of South Africa’s burgeoning food industry. The Awards went to Oaklands Fruit Juices, Yuppie Chef, Fresh Ideas and Aphrodisiac Shack, four businesses that won exhibition stands at this year’s Food Show after submitting entries that demonstrated the quality of their products, services and a passion to make their small businesses big successes.
