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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.

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[-] piecat@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado_toast

[-] misophist@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Do you deny that there has been a massive growth in the worldwide popularity of "avocado toast" in the past few decades?

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think “to the world” in this context means to a larger audience of people who had never heard of it before and didn’t live in a area where it was a common thing. So possibly yes. Or maybe no. Probably a shared effort either way.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 12 points 6 months ago

When you try to read the epic of gilgamesh and the first 5 pages describe how to pick ripe avocados smh

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago
[-] piecat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's documented in early human works and there's nobody who wrote about discovering it in those early human works.

Actually, nobody discovered it until this chef guy apparently.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Right but I'm not talking about discovering it, I'm talking about: how do we know humans have been consuming it "before any documented or written history" if there's no record of it? Archaeologists found ancient leftovers? Just curious.

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

There's no written history of humans breathing before the Bible was written. Checkmate, atheists.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago
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