Author: Ed

Books

Part 1: The story behind the cookbooks

Books I love and use are spattered with food. I can’t keep them locked behind glass. They are living tools, part of my weekly and seasonal rountines. From left to right here are their stories: 1. The Organic Salad Garden reflects the fact that I have my own organic plot at the Vegout Community Garden in St Kilda (yes, I should have been at the working bee today). Stainfactor 2 2. The Alice B Toklas Cook Book, a present from […]

Chefs

Part 5: Casual eating is this big – Bourdain

Photography: Christina Simons Anthony Bourdain on trends in casual eating: “Joel Robushon is doing a more casual stuff in Paris. It’s a chef led thing and I think it’s good for the world to take a little bit of stuffiness out of dining.”He says the ingredients and technique are still impeccable but the eating is fun. “Small plates are definitely a trend. England and America [and presumably Australia] will never have a Tapas culture like the Spanish because in order […]

Chefs

Part 4: No hippy shit: Anthony Bourdain and Tequila

Photography: Christina Simons We’re each drink a Corona on the banks of the Yarra in Melbourne at Fenix. He drags on a fag and something catches his eye. What would Anthony Bourdain really like to be drinking? “If god made beer, he’d be brewing Guinness. In Dublin. Maybe he does actually,”

journalism

CFO: Don’t bank on it

From CFO Take time to review your financing arrangements but be prepared to pay for peace of mind. With interest rate hikes on the horizon, together with economic uncertainty, companies should review their property finance. Keith Rodwell, the managing director of GE Commercial Finance, says: “I think that one of the things that you’ve seen recently is a number of the banks talking about preparing for rising interest rates, preparing for potential tougher economic times, and I think that it […]

Chefs, Restaurants

Part 3: Bored of Bourdain? More on eating in Melbourne

Photography: Christina Simons Anthony Bourdain is having trouble finding enough white anchovies for the evening meal, but his mind is on his evening out with chefs. “I do my job, I’m having a really good time and when I finish dinner tonight I’ll probably go hanging round with a bunch of chefs and cooks and restaurant people and get really drunk. If chefs haven’t taken me there I haven’t been there. I put myself in the hands of the local […]

journalism

In The Black: Pressure Cooker

Seeing the hardboiled Matt Moran being confronted with a restaurant critic in Heat in the Kicthen on SBS reminded me of  when I interviewed him for In The Black in 2004. Yes chef! Nowhere is teamwork and leadership more tested than in the fiery atmosphere of a top kitchen. In the first of a regular articles on the way different industries manage, I found out how the kitchen brigade tickGordon Ramsay’s recipes for business success (From Kitchen Nightmares) When you […]