“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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28 September 2011

TONY BILSON: RATTLIN' THEM POTS'N' PANS

BILSON DOES BRONSON: PICKIN' SOME SOUP TINS OFF THE FENCE, KANGARILLA, ABOUT 1988 photo PHILIP WHITE

Australia's most accurate bellwether for impending international financial chaos: Tony Bilson: his front-running restaurants seem to be the first to shiver when the money suddenly disappears.

On her Radio National ABC program, Julia Baird chats with "the godfather of Australian cuisine" about Bilson's forthcoming memoir, Insatiable, just as all the money in the world crumbles and his two Sydney restaurants go into voluntary administration. Click the image above to hear or read Julia's tantalising interview. DRINKSTER will review this remarkable book as soon as it's been properly chewed and digested.

Assisted by trainee chefs from Le Cordon Bleu's Adelaide campus, Bilson will be back at Yangarra Estate, McLaren Vale, to cook his annual feast on October 29th. Call the winery on 08 8383 7459 for bookings.

Go here to see the menu and the breath-taking wine list at the triumphant Penfolds dinner Bilson presented with Peter Gago in Australia's Paris embassy earlier this year.

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