Never order chicken on a Monday : kitchen chronicles of an undercover food critic

What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food that is on the turn? And how do they make it seem fresh? What happens to a restaurant when it gets a bad review? Australians are renowned for our passion for eating out and our cities boast some of the best restaurants in the world. But how many of us really have a sense of what goes on behind the scenes? In this hilarious book Matthew Evans draws on his many years of experience as both chef and restaurant reviewer to ridicule and revere, expose and acclaim the secrets behind one of the most lucrative and risky businesses in Australia. Part memoir, part expose, NEVER ORDER CHICKEN ON A MONDAY is as brilliant as it is brave - an inspiration for anyone stuck for conversation over dinner. Read more... Abstract: What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food that is on the turn? And how do they make it seem fresh? What happens to a restaurant when it gets a bad review? Australians are renowned for our passion for eating out and our cities boast some of the best restaurants in the world. But how many of us really have a sense of what goes on behind the scenes? In this hilarious book Matthew Evans draws on his many years of experience as both chef and restaurant reviewer to ridicule and revere, expose and acclaim the secrets behind one of the most lucrative and risky businesses in Australia. Part memoir, part expose, NEVER ORDER CHICKEN ON A MONDAY is as brilliant as it is brave - an inspiration for anyone stuck for conversation over dinner In Australia In The 1840s, The Lives Of Two Very Different Women Intersect. Ellis Macrorie Is Shipped To Victoria From Her Scottish Homeland By Her Bankrupt Father; Leerpeen Weelan, Her Aboriginal Servant Known As Louisa, Has Lost Her Tribe In A Bloody Act Of Violence. 'that My Country, Belong To Me. Over There. This Not My Country,' Says Louisa.ellis Feels The Ache In The Words, The Longing, And She Looks Into The Distance. She Feels Something Stir Within Herself Too. Memories Of The Land She Has Left, Of The People.forced To Marry A Man She Does Not Love, And Isolated From All Society, Ellis Is Resigned To A Solitary Life On The Remote Western District Homestead Of Strathcarron. After The Tragic Death Of Two Babies, She Is Ready Is Give Up Altogether. Although Louisa Has Endured Dispossession And The Loss Of Her Own Family, She Becomes A Steadfast Source Of Guidance, Friendship And Strength For Ellis. When The American Romantic Landscape Painter, Sketcher And Collector Sanford P. Hart Comes To Stay At Strathcarron, The Two Women Are Transformed Forever - In Both Enriching And Devastating Measures. One Hundred And Fifty Years Later, Ambitious Assistant Curator Cornelia, Researching An Exhibition On S. P. Hart For The National Gallery Of Victoria, Makes A Remarkable Discovery That Has The Potential To Rewrite History. However, It Is Not Hart's Paintings That Offer A Glimpse Into The Untold Events Of Nineteenth-century Rural Australia, But Rather Something Very Rare . . . The Longingis A Novel About Loss, Finding Home And The Significance Of History - What Is Recorded And What Is Left Unknown. Everything here was eventually tainted, Ellis thought. In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa, has lost her tribe in a bloody act of violence. Forced to marry a man she does not love, and isolated from all society, Ellis is resigned to a wretched life on the remote Western District homestead of Strathcarron. After the tragic death of two babies, she is ready is give up altogether. Although Louisa has endured unspeakable suffering, she becomes an unprecedented source of guidance, friendship and strength for Ellis. When the American Romantic landscape painter, sketcher and collector Sanford P. Hart comes to stay at Strathcarron, the two women are transformed forever - in both enriching and devastating measures. More than 150 years later, ambitious curatorial assistant Cornelia, researching an exhibition on S.P. Hart for the National Gallery of Victoria, makes a remarkable discovery that has the potential to rewrite history. However, it is not Hart's paintings that offer a glimpse into the untold events of nineteenth-century rural Australia, but rather something very rare ... The Longing is a novel about loss, finding home and the significance of history - what is recorded and those events that remain undiscovered In Australia in the 1840s, the lives of two very different women intersect. Ellis MacRorie is shipped to Victoria from her Scottish homeland by her bankrupt father; Leerpeen Weelan, her Aboriginal servant known as Louisa, has lost her tribe in a bloody act of violence. Forced to marry a man she does not love, and isolated from all society, Ellis is resigned to a solitary life on the remote Western District homestead of Strathcarron. After the tragic death of two babies, she is ready is give up altogether. Although Louisa has endured dispossession and the loss of her own family, she becomes a steadfast source of guidance, friendship and strength for Ellis. When the American Romantic landscape painter, sketcher and collector Sanford P. Hart comes to stay at Strathcarron, the two women are transformed forever - in both enriching and devastating measures. One hundred and fifty years later, ambitious assistant curator Cornelia, researching an exhibition on S. P. Hart for the National Gallery of Victoria, makes a remarkable discovery that has the potential to rewrite history. However, it is not Hart's paintings that offer a glimpse into the untold events of nineteenth-century rural Australia, but rather something very rare . . . The Longing is a novel about loss, finding home and the significance of history - what is recorded and what is left unknown. What is it really like to work in a restaurant? What do chefs do when they are running out of the night's most popular dish? Do they really serve food that is on the turn? And how do they make it seem fresh? What happens to a restaurant when it gets a bad review? Australians are renowned fortheir passion for eating out, with their cities boastingsome of the best restaurants in the world. But how many of us really have a sense of what goes on behind the scenes? In this hilarious book Matthew Evans draws on his many years of experience as both chef and restaurant reviewer to ridicule and revere, expose, and acclaim the secrets behind one of the most lucrative and risky businesses in Australia. Part memoir, part expos,this bookis as brilliant as it is bravean inspiration for anyone stuck for conversation over dinner.