George Calombaris

It's what I call bacon of the sea.

With George Calombaris.

23 to 5 on 3AW.

It is time for Friday Food.

I mean, it's a, it's a little bit out of town, but again, this epitomizes Melbourne.

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George Calombaris with me for Friday Food.

Don't forget, you can have your say at any time, 133693.

Mm-hmm

... and I think I was still with Treasury, and I bumped into George Calombaris.

He was there with one of the celebrity chefs, and I marched up to him, as I do.

"George, my husband catches swordfish, and we've got this company, and it's amazing, and you should put it in your restaurant because we have the best swordfish." And he just looked at me and went, "I like the sound of this." He said, "Well, you could just send it to me direct to my restaurant down in Melbourne." I'm trying to think what his restaurant was back then, one of his first restaurants.

We export [laughs] 70% of it, you know.

Americans want high-quality Australian fish and a lot of swordfish.

So I, I said to the head grader, you know, "We're gonna box up this one fish [laughs] for George Calombaris." He looked at me like I was an idiot.

He said, "Heidi, that's, that's just stupid because you need to be sending tons and tons to one person." I said, "No, no, no.

5 to 4 on 3AW.

Coming up in the next hour, George Calombaris will join me for Friday Food talking Grand Final snacks.

What are your Grand Final traditions when it comes to food as well? He'll give you some ideas.

Also, have you ever considered homeschooling your children? New trends have shown that parents are taking on the role of teachers at significantly high rates here in Victoria.

A lot of people will be thinking, "All right, party pies and sausage rolls.

Sounds great, George.

I'm just gonna pu- grab 'em out of the freezer at the supermarket and whack 'em in the oven." Surely that's not the way George Calombaris does it.

No.

And she said, "Oh, but we could send you home every week.

George really loved your chicken.

You know, why don't you think about that?" [laughs] And George Calombaris, who was one of the chefs, liked my chicken apparently And, um, and I said, "No, I'm, I'm not gonna put my dad's, you know, passing on TV.

No.

Sorry.