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Book launch: A Captain's Diary: 2007 - 2009
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July 17, 2009
By Gorry Bowes Taylor
Remember Graeme Smith striding to the wicket with a broken hand in the third Test in Australia? Now let this sporting great bowl you over, all over again, at the launch of his cricketing memoir - A Captain's Diary: 2007 - 2009.
Date: Friday, July 31
Time: 12 for 12.30pm
Place: Suikerbossie Restaurant
Welcome: Nederburg Cuvée Brut
Chef and owner Miki Smith's Bountiful Buffet:
Blissful butternut and orange soup with garlic and herb croutons, assorted bread basket.
Magnificent roast beef with Pommery mustard, high-rise Yorkshire pudding. Deboned leg of lamb spiked with garlic, rubbed with rosemary and thyme, served with homemade mint jelly. German oak-smoked gammon, cinnamon apple sauce. Spinach and ricotta ravioli, creamed tomato and Parmesan sauce. Vegetables: crisp-roasted potatoes, creamed spinach, roast butternut, glazed carrots, cauliflower and cheese sauce, garden petit pois. Salad per table: rocket and baby leaves, cocktail tomatoes, little onions, cucumber, feta, chives, pepperdews, baby corn, pecan and cashew nuts, egg slices.
Gorgeous gateaux with a berry coulis, fruit garnish, homemade ice-cream.
Tea/coffee.
Wines:
2007 Nederburg Winemaker's Reserve Sauvignon Blanc: ruby red, blackberries and currants with dark violets and nuances of oak in the background. A full-bodied, mouth-filling and rich wine with ripe fruit, delicate oak spices, firm tannins and a lingering aftertaste.
2008 Nederburg Winemaker's Reserve Sauvignon Blanc: brilliant lemon-lime colour, vibrant gooseberry aromas with some herbaceous nuances and a hint of ripe citrus. Distinctive gooseberry and herbaceous flavours support a balanced palate with a lingering finish.
Prizes:
Two signed copies A Captain's Diary: 2007 - 2009 by Graeme Smith (Jonathan Ball).
Two R100 Wordsworth Books vouchers.
Two readers will each win a Suikerbossie lunch for four plus bottle of wine per table.
A three-month subscription to the Cape Times.
To book:
R200 + R10 for Book Outreach to Our Kids (BOOK), R210. Suikerbossie: 021 790 1450 from 9am. Credit card details essential, 48-hour cancellation or be billed, no-shows will be billed.
BOOK buys new books for school libraries that need them. R10 566 has been raised since the project's launch in April. Half of that has been raised at the lunches and the other half donated by Wordsworth Books.
A Captain's Diary: 2007 - 2009 by Graeme Smith
Smith's Proteas were the first South African team to beat the Aussies at home. In 2008 they beat England and drew a Test series in India, making 2008 one of their most successful years. And South Africa became the highest-ranked one-day side in the world. Smith pinpoints the tour to Pakistan in 2007 as the time his team started to take shape (surrounded by security blokes bristling with guns), and he records that extraordinary 18-month journey, from Karachi to Newlands via Lord's, Leeds, Melbourne and Sydney. Read behind-the-scene mesmerising moments of team talks and selection to change-room banter. Smith passed Hansie Cronje's South African record for most Test captaincies (53) and is now fourth on the list for most Test captaincies overall with 69. His 154 against England in Birmingham is the highest fourth innings score for a winning team in Test cricket for South Africa and seventh highest overall.
When he and Neil McKenzie broke the world record opening partnership in Tests, Smith became the first player to be involved in four triple-century partnerships for the first wicket. He's one of our all-time sporting greats. Don't miss him!
Suikerbossie Restaurant
Suikerbossie's grandly grown, and is now ready to welcome 250 Cape Times readers!
Set high on the scenic bend between Llandudno and Hout Bay, you have sweeping views of spirited seas and spritely mountains and a fine feathering of fynbos. There're Suikerbossie's fanciful fairy lights, white linen and black bustly-back chairs.
Suikerbossie is a daily à la carte restaurant. Choose it, too, for successful conferences, wild weddings, birthday bashes, christenings, corporate team-building exercises.
Try its famous tea and scones, fabulous Sunday breakfast and lunch buffet and, yes, there's kosher catering.
Bear in mind that David and Miki Smith have owned and run Suikerbossie famously and fabulously for the past 19 years - now isn't that a rare gourmet record!
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