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Australian Restaurants in America
2007-06-04 00:00:00
Whilst in America recently, I though it was interesting to see that a number of Australian Restaurants and Australian Pubs have opened in the past 12 months or so. I’ll be heading back to America this week and thought it would be good to identify what Australian restaurants are already established and a little bit about what they are serving. Apart from the 800 plus Outback Steakhouse restaurants which claim to be Australian restaurants, there seems to be only a handful of restaurants that actually serve a form of Australian cuisine in the United States of America. Some of the Australian themed restaurants and pubs I found include; Bondi Road – www.bondiroad.com Located on the lower east side of New York, Bondi Road is the brain child of owner Heath St. Clair who also owns The Sunburnt Cow restaurant. Open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night Bondi Road’s menu features food influenced and flown directly from Australia. Bondi Road is known for i...
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Australian Made Campaign in America
2007-06-04 00:00:00
Last month in whilst in Los Angeles, Vic Cherikoff and I promoted the arrival of Australian Made ® foods on the shelves of Gelsons Market. The launch event was held at LA Foodworks in West Hollywood and we showcased food products from Brookfarm Macadamia, Beechworth Honey, G’day Gourmet Tuna and Valley Produce Company will feature alongside 100% All Natural Organic Beef and Country Fresh Australian lamb, flavoured with Vic Cherikoff’s range of native Australian spices. Throughout the event, Australian photographer, Martina Gemmola took a great deal of photos capturing the moment. Here are just a few of them. Demonstrating Angel Hair Paperbark Smoke Pasta Nest Topped with G’day Gourmet Chili Tuna with Lemon Myrtle. Cooking Australian lamb cutlets on the BBQ. Broadleaf Country Fresh Australian Lamb Cutlets Crusted in Wildfire Spice and Kashmiri Chili Spiced Macadamia Nuts with Warm Illawarra Plum Sauce Slow roasted, boneless be...
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Food Costs and Menu Engineering ebook
2007-06-04 00:00:00
I’ve already started writing another ebook which will be a guide to Food Costs and Menu Engineer ing . The ebook will be aimed at chefs, restaurant owners, restaurant managers and general managers who want to learn how to better manage and control their food costs. The book will include a number of tips which when implemented will significantly decrease your food costs. I will be looking for food costing case studies, so if you are interested in being interviewed or featured in the book contact me. Also if you have any ideas on food costs that you feel should be included also contact me with your thoughts. As many of the chapters start to take form, I’ll start sharing food costs excerpts of the ebook for all to share and contribute your thoughts. I’m not sure of the price at present, but it will reflect the number of pages and hours I’ll dedicate to it. I will guarantee that when you purchase a copy, I’ll provide you free updates in the future. I am...
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Naturally Peninsula Flavours Cookbook
2007-06-04 00:00:00
There are ordinary hotels, then there are hotels like a Peninsula Hotel. For those that don’t know, Peninsula Hotels are a relatively small group of luxury hotels with properties in both America and Asia that ooze personalized service and are dedicated to providing luxurious comfort for their guests. Their restaurants are among the leading restaurants in their city and are considered “must visit” destinations in their own right. So when I heard the Peninsula Group had published their first cookbook, I had to get my hands on one. Titled, Natur ally Peninsula – Flavours, the cookbook features 76 recipes from The Peninsula’s global team of chefs, with chapters on Appetisers, Soup, Fish, Shellfish, Poultry, Meat, Vegetables & Bean Curd, Rice & Pasta, Desserts and Smoothies. The book highlights the Peninsula group’s commitment to develop their own cuisine based on the guiding principle that “to live well is to eat well.” whi...
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Mitchell Library NSW - Indulging in native food
2007-06-04 00:00:00
Last night with an audience of over 70 people, Vic Cherikoff and I hosted a discussion evening about Indulging in native food in the Dixson Room at the NSW Mitchell Libra ry . We were also joined by Lee Etherington from Kurrajong Australian Native Food s. All three of us spoke about our passion for native Australian foods, the industry itself and the future. I spoke specifically about how chefs are using ingredients in restaurants both in Australian and overseas as well as some of the promotional and marketing activities. If you missed the event and wanted to see the presentation, you can download it here. Technorati Tags mitchell library, library, vic cherikoff, benjamin christie, chef, food, food and drink, australia, sydney, nsw, dining downunder, bush food, celebrity chef, bush tucker, native foods, cookbook, cook book, australian food

Kitchen Tips [1]
2007-06-04 00:00:00
What does a tip mean? Well, the definition from the Macquarie Dictionary for a tip or gratuity is a small present of money given to someone, as a waiter, porter, etc., for performing a service; a gratuity. (It is widely claimed that the word is an acronym for ‘To Insure Promptness’ and originates from 16th Century English coffee houses but as acronyms were not thought to have been used until the 1920s, this claim is disputed.) Depending on the location in the world a tip to an employee constitutes a considerable percentage of their wage. In some states of the USA a restaurant employee earns merely 30 per cent of their wage from the employer and essentially requires earning the remainder in tips. In this environment, the consumer is compelled to leave a mandatory tip of around 10-15 per cent, but overall the standard of service is outstanding. In Australia tipping is often isolated to standalone restaurants and those within hotels. Depending on the level of service...
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