The Melbourne restaurant supporting Jamie Oliver’s charity foundation is largely owned by a businessman who is banking on profits which may not be there. BY ED CHARLES JAMIE OLIVER’S GONE HOME. The cameras are switched off. The TV show will soon end. Now the local franchise of the celebrity chef’s charitable cause, the Fifteen Foundation [...]

My story about the egos and clashes behind the restaurant awards season appears in The Bulletin (that’s our local version of Newsweek) today. More background to this story over at Tomato. Flaming egos and acerbic critics. Why, it must be the annual restaurant awards. Ed Charles reports. Melbourne chef Shannon Bennett won’t be banning the critics. [...]