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.
That’s stupid like saying buttered bread is stupid.
It’s not some trendy thing, people have been mashing avocado on toast for 140 years.
Putting butter on bread is kinda stupid if you’re not going to at least toast the bread first.
And if avocado toast is so old, why are people saying a 54-year-old invented it?
This guy was a chef, a family man, and a business owner. Making avocado toast can’t have been his only claim to fame.
What’s wrong with bread and butter?!
He was just known for it. Not everyone is extraordinary, I know I’m not.