Thanks to LN Australia’s "Lawyers Weekly" for bringing this story to our attention. Having just spent a week in Sydney HOB has seen how Australia has become gripped by masterchef fever….to be honest we prefer the gentler UK format, but that said…
It is great to see that even law firm managing partners feel as though they can have a go as well – so congratulations to John Poulson the managing partner of Minters in Perth..
LN report:
From Minters to MasterChef
By day he runs the Perth office of a top-tier law firm, by night he dons his chef’s hat and apron and creates culinary masterpieces. Minters Perth managing partner and Master Chef Australia top 50 contestant John Poulsen dishes up the details to Zoe Lyon
Minter Ellison’s Perth managing partner, John Poulsen, can be added to the long list of amateur chefs whose early passion for food was nurtured by those staples of Australian kitchens – the Women’s Weekly cookbooks.
Poulsen’s mother died when was very young, and he took up the role of household chef at age 11 after realising that cooking was not exactly his father’s forte.
"It was out of necessity," he says. "My dad started cooking and he boiled a meatball in oil and stuck it on a plate, and I thought ‘I’m not going to eat this for the rest of my life’, so I went out and bought two cookbooks – a Women’s Weekly cookbook and The Golden Wattle Cookery Book – and it started from there."
But Poulsen, having the driven personality that he does, honed his culinary skills more finely than most, and recently his efforts landed him in the top 50 of MasterChef Australia.
In fact the top 50 could have been just the start of things for Poulsen, who dropped out of the competition when it came time for contestants to relocate to Sydney. Understandably so – with an office of a top-tier law firm to run, his plate was already pretty full.
Full report at ..http://www.lexisnexis.com/COMMUNITY/LWAU/blogs/slide_show/archive/2009/06/28/from-minters-to-masterchef.aspx
