Australia's Favourite Chef
May 26th 2011 10:07
Australia's favourite chef: Margaret Fulton. Courtesy: ABC
The matriarch of Australian cooking, Margaret Fulton, has been voted as the most influential celebrity chef on Aussie cooking habits in a new survey by the Good Food & Wine Show.
According to the results, Fulton was by far the most influential on our home cooking habits – some 43 years after her Margaret Fulton Cookbook was first published.
Just behind, Coles guru Curtis Stone commanded second place while the acclaimed MasterChef series garnered the majority of votes for being most influential on Australian cooking habits.
However, when asked which chef they would most like to be, Aussies went abroad and out of a host of famed celebrity chefs, foodies idolise Jamie Oliver with more than one in five selecting the English Naked Chef, closely followed by domestic goddess Nigella Lawson.
When it came to our favourite dish, the Aussie BBQ is Australia’s most iconic dish with the meat pie and sauce taking second place, followed by the family roast.
Aussies dinners are very regular and habitual, with the roast dinner, stir-fry and pasta coming in as the most cooked dinners in the family home.
One in five respondents also thought the Prawn Cocktail was due to make a reappearance while there was also a push for the traditional Swiss Cheese Fondue.
And as much as we love our home cooking, more than half of Aussies surveyed are ordering in take-away meals once a week with Thai presenting itself as the most popular cuisine to order in.
Other findings included more than half of Aussies buy take-away meals at least once a week, when eating out, fast food (McDonalds and KFC) were voted as the least favourite options, almost half of Aussies favour a Sauvignon Blanc when it comes to white wine, Cabernet Sauvignon is our favourite variety of red wine.
Chocolate is the best comfort food according to 28.5% of Aussies while mashed potatoes came off second with 12.1% of votes.
Succumb to your senses at the 2011 Good Food & Wine Show which kicks off in Melbourne, Australia’s food Mecca, from Friday 3 June to Sunday 5 June, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf.
The scrumptious line-up at this year’s Show will include a selection of Australia’s finest food and wine over three jam-packed days, and feature all the attractions Show-goers have come to love alongside some exciting new additions.
For information on the Good Food & Wine Show, visit www.goodfoodshow.com.au.
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