{"id":50867,"date":"2020-02-13T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/singing-chef-heads-to-istanbul-20200212-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:40:20","slug":"singing-chef-heads-to-istanbul-20200212-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/singing-chef-heads-to-istanbul-20200212-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Singing chef\u2019 heads to Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Custom\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"772fd57c\">\n<div class=\"custom\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUDNuus%2Fvideos%2F2740363286076817%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>THE \u201csinging chef\u201d from Despatch, Ilana van Vuuren, is one of five top culinary students who will be travelling to Turkey for a week- long, all-expenses-paid, tour to discover Istanbul\u2019s vibrant food culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am extremely excited and honoured to be one of the top five, as there literally are thousands of students at Capsicum Culinary Studios across South Africa,\u201d said Ilana, who is an internationally qualified chef in hot and cold food preparations, as well as patisserie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"4c5fab73\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9934\/aa93bed5c91247bc8e026b0783580441.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9934\/f42c65e13f1740dbbeb562cdb79824c3.jpg\" title=\"Ilana van Vuuren is one of Capsicum Culinary Studio\u2019s top five students in South Africa. This resulted in her being offered the opportunity to go to Istanbul on a food and spice tour. Photo: HEILIE COMBRINCK\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Ilana van Vuuren is one of Capsicum Culinary Studio\u2019s top five students in South Africa. This resulted in her being offered the opportunity to go to Istanbul on a food and spice tour. Photo: HEILIE COMBRINCK<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\">UD News<\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Istanbul is known as a bustling gastronomic paradise and the group will be visiting some of the largest food markets, attend traditional Turkish cooking classes and visit one of Istanbul\u2019s famous spice bazaars, where visitors can taste the goods on offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are going to teach us how to make baklava and the preparation of some of the true Turkish traditional meals and desserts.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said she has never thought that an opportunity like this would come her way. Her mother, Leonie van Vuuren, on the other hand, said she knew Ilana would one day be an exceptional chef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince the age of four, she was fascinated by chefs and later years she was hooked on cook books and television programmes about food. She always said that one day she would become a chef,\u201d said Leonie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilana completed the two year culinary course and graduated in June 2019. Since then the kitchen of her family home in Azalea Park, Despatch, has been transformed as she has started her own business, Artisan Bakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Anyting with food she can do<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnything to do with food I can do. But my passion is patisserie therefore I am looking forward to see how the Turkish make baklava,\u201d said Ilana. Appearance of food, or plating, is just as important as the taste of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"073ceff3\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9934\/0a25ad3d4ee94f778b9cce6720ccd9c4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/9934\/23e3b23a324249e4b0d5ad2fead0cc8d.jpg\" title=\"Ilana van Vuuren is passionate about patisserie and believes that food must taste as good as it looks. Photo: HEILIE COMBRINCK\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Ilana van Vuuren is passionate about patisserie and believes that food must taste as good as it looks. Photo: HEILIE COMBRINCK<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\">UD News<\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFood must taste as good as it looks. I work out my favourite combinations to the point where I know that even if it\u2019s small, it will have the most delicate flavours that it can possibly have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to traditional recipes, of which she has various winning recipes passed down from her grandmother, Ilana likes to deconstruct them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flavour might be the same, but the presentation is totally different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would much rather work 18 hours straight and make the most amazing food than doing anything else. It makes me happy, beautiful food or patisserie is my biggest thrill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group of Capsicum chefs will leave for Turkey on February 17 and return by the 24th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span><strong>Heading back on stage<\/strong> <\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilana works tirelessly and in the corner of the kitchen is her companion, a little pink boom box. 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