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Book’s got the look FORGET about stocking your pantry with exotic ingredients and trying to cook complicated recipes that you can’t even pronounce - Frankston foodie Jade O’Donahoo says “simple” is back in fashion. The former cafe owner has just released a selfillustrated cookbook of vegetarian recipes that hark back to her Italian heritage and her love of “uncomplicated” food. She said the book – Eat This, My Friend – published by Hardie Grant Books, was inspired by the customer requests she received for her recipes after she closed her popular hole-in-the-wall cafe, Switchboard, in Melbourne a few years ago. “I got so many people saying they missed the food and asking for the recipes that I started writing them down, they were all just there in my head and then one thing led to another,” she said. As the project grew and more recipes were included, O’Donahoo said she recognised she had hit on something special. “Then I was encouraged to send it to a publisher so I did the illustrations and included some little stories, and in the end, I had a book.” O’Donahoo said she wanted to stick to recipes that didn’t require people to “hunt down’ tricky ingredients. “The book is all about making healthy food accessible to everybody, so I’ve stripped it back to ‘less is more’.” And that’s a philosophy that has worked to make Eat This, My Friend visually appealing, right down to the many simple but colourful illustrations. Despite several knockbacks from publishers, the single mother and child development worker persevered until a publisher decided to take a bite and commission the book’s publication. “It’s all very exciting, there might even be more to come,” O’Donahoo said. See eatthismyfriend.com for details. Liz Bell
A FORMER Seaford automotive repair business manager has been reimbursed $102,990 following intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman. The manager was found to have not received the correct annual leave and long service leave entitlements after he resigned from the company after 25 years. He contacted the Fair Work Ombudsman for help and to confirm that he was entitled to receive the payment. He was provided with advice to help him resolve the matter with his former employer. The entitlement was paid in two lump sum payments within a week. The Fair Work Ombudsman also helped a foreman in Carrum Downs to recover $5623 in entitlements. The woman sought help after not receiving her final pay and annual leave entitlements when she resigned from the business, despite having given the correct notice. Acting Fair Work Ombudsman Michael Campbell said the employers in the two instances avoided enforcement action “because they co-operated and voluntarily rectified the underpayments after being made aware of their obligations”. “The underpayments in these instances were inadvertent and were the result of employers failing to check their obligations under workplace laws,” Mr Campbell said. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s online tools and resources aim to assist employees and employers to determine their applicable award and classification and pay rates, allowances, overtime and penalty rates. The ‘My Account’ portal enables employers to view and save pay rates and receive alerts about minimum wage increases. See fairwork.gov.au or call 13 13 94 for assistance.
Write ingredients: Jade O’Donahoo shares her love of simple food in a new cookbook. Picture: Gary Sissons
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