Dane Richards

Interview: Dayan Hartill-Law

Dayan Hartill-Law is Executive Chef at Palette Restaurant in HOTA on the Gold Coast Given this is the most asked question at your Restaurant, how would you best define Aussie Cuisine? This has to be my favorite question to answer because I have forever run with a cuisine type of Modern Australian. For me AustraliaContinue reading “Interview: Dayan Hartill-Law”

Grills and pavlovas

This article was originally published in 2017 as part of the Aussie Cuisine Project Whether Australia has its own cuisine has been the subject of much debate. Australia’s cuisine is an adopted one. An aggregation of recipes, styles and techniques from all over the world, using a wide range of fresh and original ingredients. AlmostContinue reading “Grills and pavlovas”

The Country Women’s Association of Australia: The cornerstone of regional cooking

We look back to an article published in 2016 that acknowledged the foundational contribution of The Country Women’s Association to both Regional and Aussie Cuisine. Formed in 1922, primarily with a socially driven mission statement to counter both the effects of isolation, and the lack of access to similar welfare and health facilities that theContinue reading “The Country Women’s Association of Australia: The cornerstone of regional cooking”

Interview (2018): Brian Geraghty

We interviewed Chef /Owner Brian Geraghty of the acclaimed Berowra Waters Inn in 2018 about the influences of immigration, native ingredients and regional cuisine. What is Australian cuisine? To its core; it is the tapestry of our nation’s great multicultural past, in essence, a microclimate of nations trying to identify together in unity. What doContinue reading “Interview (2018): Brian Geraghty”

The Journey Continues

In 2016, the Publisher of Gault&Millau Australia Fritz Gubler decided to commence a project to define broadly what constituted Australian Cuisine. Having published G&M Guides in Australia from 2014, a large portion of the restaurants reviewed indicated that they served “Modern Australian Cuisine”, but most were unable to give an informative explanation, or even theContinue reading “The Journey Continues”