About me
I am a qualified baker, pastry cook, decorator and patissier. I trained in England at the Birmingham College of Food where I also taught for 10 years.
I worked at the Dorchester Hotel in London and the Cumberland Hotel where I was seconded from my hotel in Birmingham to help with the royal Garden Parties at Buckingham Palace. I spent a year at the Bellevue Palace Hotel in Berne Switzerland leaving as first commis patissier. I specialise in cake decoration and marzipan modelling although I teach all bakery related subjects and have completed 2 sugar courses with Ewald Notter when he was in Zurich and have also completed 2 chocolate courses with Callebaut choloates school here in Australia. I have been writing for the Australian baking journal- The Leading Edge and have written a baking encyclopedia as well as a number of other shorter books relaing to practical subjects. Currently I am looking for a publisher or literary agent to get my books published.
My present position is as senior teacher (Advanced Skills Teacher) at Tasmania's state baking school where I also write learning and assessment tools.
Awards, Honors and Societies
National Australian Bakery Scholarship 1992
Fellow of the Institute of British Bakers
Licentiateship of City and Guilds of London
Additional Services
Chief Judge - National Baking Competition of Australia (2007 to present)
Chief Judge Tasmanian fine Foods Awards (2006 -2010)
Chief judge Worldskills Competition (pastrycooking 1995)
Chief judge Worldskills Competition (breadmaking 2008)
Judge Worldskills Ciompetition (breadmaking 2010)
Judge for the AustralianBaking Industry National Scholarship Awards (1993 to present)
Australia Chef
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