Australian Food

Bill Granger is the king of relaxed Australian cafe style food, known for his synthesis of market produce, eggs, sunshine, and freshness into something you didn't know you wanted. His first book of recipes, Sydney Food, published 20 years ago, set a new standard for cafe dining, and he has since been crowned the egg master of Sydney, the king of breakfast, the creator of avocado toast, and the restaurateur most responsible for the Australian cafe's global reach. His restaurants now serve ricotta hotcakes, fluffy scrambled eggs, lively salads, and punchy curries, reflecting decades of global experience and culinary creativity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2020
Publisher: Murdoch Books

The long-awaited new cookbook from the king of relaxed Australian cafe style food, Bill Granger, is set to revolutionize the culinary world. Every city has one cafe that becomes the poster child for its inner spirit, and for Sydney, it is Bills. Bill has a way of synthesizing market produce, eggs, sunshine, and freshness into something you didn't know you wanted, but you wanted it bad.

Terry Durack, in The New Yorker, asserts that Bill Granger is the restaurateur who is most responsible for the Australian cafe's global reach. In the 20 years since Bill Granger published his first book of recipes, Sydney Food, the world has fallen in love with the joyfully casual Australian way of eating. As a self-taught cook, straight out of art school, Bill furnished his first street-corner eatery in minimalist style, serving a small but perfectly formed menu of domestic dishes around a central communal table. He captured the hearts of Sydneysiders and visitors alike, while setting an exciting new standard for cafe dining.

Since then, Bill has been crowned the egg master of Sydney (New York Times, 2002), the king of breakfast (The Telegraph Magazine, 2016), the creator of avocado toast (Washington Post, 2016), and the restaurateur most responsible for the Australian cafe's global reach (The New Yorker, 2018). Nowadays, from Sydney to Tokyo, and London to Seoul, queues form to enjoy ricotta hotcakes (Sydney's most iconic dish, Good Food, 2019), fluffy scrambled eggs, lively salads, and punchy curries. It is a bright picture of Australian food that has traveled across the globe, packed with fresh flavors and local produce, healthy but never preachy, whose main ingredient seems to be sunshine itself.

The plates at any of Bill's restaurants are more sophisticated today, reflecting decades of global experience and culinary c.

Weight: 1166g
Dimension: 199 x 262 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781911632962