SAN FRANCISCO – Bill Granger, the Australian chef, food writer and restaurant owner who brought Aussie-style food to international capitals from London to Seoul, has died. He was 54.
Granger’s family said on social media Tuesday that the chef died in a hospital in London on Christmas Day.
“A dedicated husband and father, Bill died peacefully in hospital with his wife Natalie Elliott and three daughters, Edie, Ins and Bunny, at his bedside in their adopted home of London,” the family statement said. It gave no further details.
Born in 1969 in Melbourne, Australia, Granger was a self-taught cook who launched a chef’s career over three decades after dropping out of art school. He opened his first restaurant in 1993 in the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst, where he soon became known for his breakfasts served at a central communal table.
Thus dies the man who made home ownership impossible for millennials
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The man who singlehandedly stole all the bootstraps
Did he really though?
Sliced or mashed avocado has been eaten on some sort of bread, flatbread, or tortilla (often heated or toasted) since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.
According to The Washington Post, chef Bill Granger may have been the first person to put avocado toast on a modern café menu in 1993 in Sydney,[9] although the dish is documented in Brisbane, Australia, as early as 1929
Do you deny that there has been a massive growth in the worldwide popularity of “avocado toast” in the past few decades?
Given the rise of the internet given the timeline (Chef since 1993).
There’s been a massive growth of everything in popularity except maybe Nu Metal.
Did Strongbad invent comics? Because there’s been massive growth since he did it.
since humans first started consuming bread and avocados, and before any documented or written history.
So how do we know if it’s before documented history?
I hope when I grow up I can one day own an avocado of my very own!
Serving breakfast at one large communal table sounds like a cool idea actually.
The real treasure was the avocados we met along the way.
Guess its not that healthy
Oh it is, but it’s an entry level drug. Soon you’ll be deep frying snickers and slow cooking an entire pig.
Isnt deep fried mars bars a thing somewhere i think?
I’m pretty sure they’re mandatory in Scotland.
Mars bars aren’t generally available in the US.
They are, they’re just called milky ways
It’s a milky way with a soft caramel layer, also the nougat is a bit different. Honestly they’re better battered and deep fried, it’s like it’s wrapped in a pancake and melted. Maybe a corndog batter is similar - it looks similar - but I’ve never had one. Anyway you should never eat one because it’s not food, it’s poison with calories.
The milky ways in America have a soft caramel layer? I say this as a Scot living in America whose constantly trying to remember which way round Milky Way/Mars bars & Three Musketeers go.
Oh yeah, forgot about that! Changed “Midwest fairs” to “Scotland” 😁
Only specialty places, and that makes me sad… Mars, Maltesers, and Flake bars are my favorite things I never get to have due to availability. In the end I think it’s a good thing I can only have these like once a year if I am lucky.
Well if they eat enough of the fried mars bars, you can then roll them into the sauna and you have slow cooking pig
In my state fair you can purchase deep fried butter.
How do you deep fry butter… i mean you drop it in the frying oil and poof? Or is it coated in teflon or something?
Freeze it and batter it, it’s surprisingly easy.
Coated in batter, and most likely chilled also. Like eating a pancake with a butter center.
Oof… poor arteries
Honestly, not the worst thing you can do after dropping out of art school.
Hail kissy
We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast
How dare you raise that abomination of “coffee” to this honourable Australian’s name.
Avocado toast is stupid, but he didn’t deserve to die so young.
And it really sucks to have Christmas of all days overshadowed by your father’s/husband’s death.
Avocado toast is stupid
Please touch grass
Avocado toast is fucking delicious and comparatively healthy.
