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Ben O'Donoghue
Benjamin O'Donoghue (born 22 May 1970) is an Australian chef. Early years O'Donoghue was five years old when his family moved from England to Port Hedland, Western Australia, Port Hedland. At the age of ten, his family moved to Perth, Western Australia, Perth. On finishing school O'Donoghue was employed at a restaurant at Rottnest Island for the summer as a kitchen hand. As a result, he applied for and obtained an apprenticeship in a seafood restaurant in Nedlands, Western Australia, Nedlands called Jo Jo's. In his final year of high school at La Salle College in Midland, Western Australia, Midland he was head boy. Career After qualifying as a chef O'Donoghue was promoted to sous chef at Jessica's Seafood Restaurant in Perth. This was followed by stints as Chef de Partie at Goodfella's restaurant in the Newtown, New South Wales, Newtown area of Sydney and at the Tribeca restaurant in Double Bay, New South Wales, Double Bay, Sydney, where he was subsequently promoted to sous chef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River Café (London)
The River Café is a restaurant in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, specialising in Italian cuisine. It was owned and run by chefs Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray until Gray's death in 2010; since then, Rogers has been the sole owner and has run the restaurant. Location The restaurant is located on the north bank of the Thames in Hammersmith, in the former Alexander Duckham#Duckhams, Duckhams oil storage facility; the nearest railway station being Hammersmith tube station (Piccadilly and District lines), Hammersmith tube station. The facility was modified to alternative use by architect Richard Rogers, Lord Rogers, the husband of Ruth Rogers (Lady Rogers). The restaurant originally opened in 1987 as the employee café of the architectural partnership. The restaurant has a garden area with views of the River Thames. Culinary direction Signature dishes include: wild mushroom risotto; Dover sole and John Dory smoked in the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC radio and online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC provides five non-commercial channels within Australia, headed by its flagship ABC TV channel, as well as ABC Australia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Parsons
Lucas John Kendall Parsons (born 4 October 1969) is an Australian former professional golfer. Parsons was born in Orange, New South Wales. As an amateur, he won both the Australian and New Zealand Amateur Championships in 1991. He turned professional the following year and joined the PGA Tour of Australasia. Parsons won seven tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia, including the New Zealand Open in 1995. He played one unsuccessful season on the United States-based PGA Tour in 1996. He also played for a time on the European Tour after graduating from the second tier Challenge Tour in 1999, having won two tournaments and finished 10th on the money list. His best season-end ranking on the European Tour Order of Merit was 37th in 2000, the year he won the Greg Norman Holden International, also a PGA Tour of Australasia event. He finished a career best 2nd on that tour's Order of Merit at the end of the 1999/2000 season. MasterChef Australia Having retired from tournament golf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef Australia (season 1)
The first series of the Australian reality television series '' MasterChef Australia'' began on 27 April 2009 and aired on Network Ten, concluding on 19 July 2009 when Julie Goodwin was crowned the winner. The series was hosted by Sarah Wilson. Contestants Subsequent appearances * Julie Goodwin appeared on Series 2 as a guest judge for an invention test and for Masterclass. * Poh Ling Yeow appeared on 1st Junior Series for a Masterclass. * Andre Ursini appeared on Series 3 to give a lesson for Masterclass * Julie again appeared on Series 4 to be a guest judge for a Mystery box Challenge. * In a Special All Star Series for Charity, Julie and Poh took part along with Justine Schofield and Chris Badenoch. Poh came 7th, Julie came 5th, Justine came 4th & Chris came Runner Up. * Joshua "Josh" Catalano appeared in the team challenge during "Wild West Week" of Series 5. * Julie appeared at the first Mystery box challenge & Invention test of Series 6. * In a Superstar theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
''The Sunday Times'' is a tabloid Sunday newspaper published by Western Press Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Seven West Media, in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia. Founded as The West Australian Sunday Times, it was renamed The Sunday Times from 30 March 1902. Owned since 1955 by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia and corporate predecessors, the newspaper and its website ''PerthNow'', were sold to Seven West Media in 2016.SWM finalises purchase of The Sunday Times . '''', 8 November 2016, page 3 History Established by |
Anna Gare
Anna Gare is an Australian musician, cook, television personality and author. Biography Gare was born 10 March 1969 in Subiaco, Western Australia and grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia, Fremantle. She attended the Lance Holt School, where as a student she ran a Cafeteria, canteen for students and staff. Musician Gare started off her career as a musician when she was twelve when she formed an all-female band with her sister Sophie and two friends, Jodie Bell and Lucy Lemann, called the Jam Tarts. The band was managed by their mother, Kate Gare. For ten years the Jam Tarts were a successful touring and recording band within Australia and performed at international music festivals. They performed live on NBC's ''Today (NBC program), Today Show'', at the 1987 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and toured with Rik Mayall and Jonathan Richman. The Jam Tarts also played as part of a larger band in combination with the Nansing Quartet, a six piece band whose members included Lucky Oceans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LifeStyle Food
Lifestyle Food (stylised as Lifestyle FOOD) is an Australian pay-TV food channel, solely dedicated to food, wine and restaurant society. The channel is a subsidiary of Lifestyle, which runs 24 hours a day on the Foxtel. On 19 September 2016, Lifestyle refreshed its look which included a new logo. Programming Original programming * '' Stuart MacGill Uncorked'' (2007) * ''Planet Cake'' (2012) * '' River Cottage Australia'' (2013-2014 on LifeStyle, 2015-present on LifeStyle Food) * '' Hemsley + Hemsley: Healthy & Delicious'' * '' Darren Robertson's Charcoal Kitchen'' (2014) * '' Donna Hay: Basics to Brilliance'' (2016) Acquired programming * ''Nigella Kitchen'' * ''Jamie at Home'' * ''Bill's Food'' * ''Masterchef'' * ''Come Dine With Me'' * ''Ace of Cakes'' * '' Mary's Kitchen Crush''Jillian Morgan"Extra: Blue Ant, Handel Productions ink deal; “Mary’s Kitchen Crush” goes abroad" ''RealScreen'', 1 October 2019. See also * Lifestyle * Lifestyle You * Lifestyle Home Lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Stone
Curtis Travis Stone (born 4 November 1975) is an Australian celebrity chef, author and television personality. Stone has been the fresh food and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since 2010. Early life Stone was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Stone began cooking with his paternal grandmother, Maude, at the age of four. His father, Bryan Stone, is an accountant, and his mother, Lorraine, is a florist; they separated when Stone was 2 years old. Stone attended an all-boys high school where he took home economics class and then went on to a commercial cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school. Career Stone studied for a Bachelor of Business before deciding to pursue a career as a chef. He worked in Australian restaurants before leaving to work in London, where he debuted his cooking career at age 18 at the Savoy Hotel. Upon completing his qualifications as a chef, Stone began cooking under Marco Pierre White at the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surfing The Menu
''Surfing the Menu'' is an Australian television cooking and lifestyle series on the ABC which first screened in 2003. The series follows features two chefs who follow their passions as they travel around Australia and New Zealand. The first three seasons were presented by Curtis Stone and Ben O'Donoghue Benjamin O'Donoghue (born 22 May 1970) is an Australian chef. Early years O'Donoghue was five years old when his family moved from England to Port Hedland, Western Australia, Port Hedland. At the age of ten, his family moved to Perth, Western A .... The fourth season also featured episodes presented by O'Donoghue and Mark Gardner. Episodes Season 1 (2003) *S1 E1 Abrolhos Islands *S1 E2 Broome *S1 E3 Margaret River *S1 E4 Tasmania *S1 E5 New Norcia *S1 E6 Hunter Valley *S1 E7 Bellarine Peninsula *S1 E8 Byron Bay Season 2 (2004) *S2 E1 Cairns *S2 E2 Ningaloo Coast *S2 E3 Kakadu *S2 E4 Freo & Rotto *S2 E5 Mornington Peninsula *S2 E6 Albany *S2 E7 Eyre Peninsula *S2 E8 Sydne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked Chef
''The Naked Chef'' is a BBC Two television cooking programme starring Jamie Oliver. It originally ran for three series plus three Christmas specials, and was produced by Optomen Television for the BBC. The show was Oliver's television debut, and was noted for its use of jumpy, close-up camera work, and the presenter's relaxed style. The programme was credited with inspiring men to cook due to Oliver's "blokey" approach. Each episode took its theme from a social situation or event in Oliver's life, such as a hen night or babysitting Babysitting is temporarily caring for a child. Babysitting can be a paid job for all ages; however, it is best known as a temporary activity for early teenagers who are not yet eligible for employment in the general economy. It provides auton .... In series 1 and 2, except the Christmas specials, Oliver was filmed cooking at a home paid for by the BBC. In series 3, the kitchen locations shifted to other venues. Episodes † Aired as a special ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
