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15 / 03 / 2004
Since filming the first series of Dining Downunder, I started to design layout of the Dining Downunder Cookbook with Vic Cherikoff and Gerodie McRae.
For a couple of weeks of intense and I mean intense recipe development plus gathering and resize and retouching photos the Dining Downunder Cookbook went off to the printers in Melbourne.
The book includes all the recipes from the first series of Dining Downunder, as well as detailed information on Australian indigenous fruits, seeds, nuts, herbs spices, essential oils and flavour extracts. There’s sugarbag
from Australian native bees and food adjuncts such as paperbark.
To make sure things went smoothly and to do the initial press check, Vic and I went down to PMP printing in Melbourne for a very long night. For the first couple of hours all the plates were made one by one from our PDFs, then it was onto the actual printers.
Having been involved with a number of publications there is no feeling for a chef than watching their first cookbook come of a four head Heidelberg. Next time around I’ll know a lot more than I know now about the print process.
You can get the Dining Downunder Cookbook from our online store at http://shop.dining-downunder.com
