Breakfast with Bill Granger

On Wednesday the 10th of October, 2012, I was lucky enough to have breakfast with Bill Granger. For those who don't know, Bill Granger is a famous Australian Chef who has restaurants in Sydney, Tokyo and London just to name a few!

Bill was in Brisbane to promote his new cookbook 'Easy' which is filled with easy, stress-free recipes. He cooked for us the bircher muesli with spiced cranberries as well as the fried eggs with indian spiced potatoes from his new cookbook. They were absolutely delicious!

At the end Bill talked about the process involved in creating such a cookbook. It is much more complex then I ever imagined. After creating the recipe in his head, Bill cooks what he has envisaged, making adjustments during the cooking process. When happy with how the recipe tastes, he gives a copy of his recipe, on a blank sheet of a paper, to a "tester" (someone who has to cook the recipe exactly how it has been written). Bill tastes what the tester creates so that he can see how an ordinary cook reading his recipe at home would interpret it. This process, of making changes and using testers, is repeated many times until the recipe has been perfected and written in the clearest, simplest words possible. And that's just for one recipe (to highlight the enormity of the workload I think it is worth noting that there are 100 recipes in Bill's latest cookbook)!

Bill Granger and I