The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry
Arts:Food
Angie Prendergast-Sceats once was an olive oil judge, where she had to watch out for vintages that tasted like "rancid feet" and "baby vomit" (such references really did appear on the flavour chart that's deployed in these contests).
But for the last three years, she's been the culinary director and head chef of Two Good, which used recipes by top chefs (Peter Gilmore, Christine Manfield, Ben Shewry) to create soups and salads that would be sent to women in domestic violence shelters. You'd order two soups: keep one and the other would be donated to someone in a refuge. The food was cooked by women from shelters, who were paid above-award wages to do so. In her role, Angie would oversee this work – and there some memorable/hilarious times when they did their cooking in a nightclub's not-so-conventional kitchen – and she also ran Two Good's Work Work program, training long-term unemployed women, refugees and disenfranchised people to help them get jobs. It was far from the aggressive stereotype of a kitchen where you could yell at someone to hurry up with the carrots; in working with people who might not know how to hold a knife or are still dealing with trauma, cooking 1000 meals a week is a different kind of challenge.
We also talk about Angie's recipes – which appear in the new Two Good cookbook, her memorable trips to Japan (where she had nine bowls of ramen in five hours and visited a 1000-year-old miso shop) and what she's doing next with her Angie's Food enterprise.
Min Chai – N2 Extreme Gelato
Gregory Llewellyn – Hartsyard, The Gretz
Analiese Gregory – Funemployed
Matt Swieboda – Waterman Lobster Co.
Christopher Thé – Black Star Pastry
Dan Barber and Eric Kayser – Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Mitch Orr – ACME
Andrew Levins – TwoThousand
Dan Hong – Merivale
Carlos Heng and Dan Pigott - MakMak Macarons
David Thompson, Katrina Birchmeier, Emma Barnes - Electrolux Appetite For Excellence Awards
Massimo Bottura – Osteria Francescana, Never Trust A Skinny Italian Chef
Kylie Millar - Pei Modern, Burch and Purchese
Kerby Craig - Ume
Hetty McKinnon - Arthur Street Kitchen
Nick Smith – Rising Sun Workshop
Chui Lee Luk - Claude's, Chow Bar and Eating House, Celestial City
Ambrose Chiang - Momofuku Seiobo
Hanz Gueco - Cafe Paci
Andy Bowdy (Andrew Bowden) - Hartsyard
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