Meet Anna
Who is Anna?
“I am a Fun Loving, Adventure Seeking, Enthusiastic, Super Positive Aussie Gal & creator of The Hospitality Guru! I’m a Chef, a Teacher, Trainer, Functions, Wedding & Event Architect; General Manager & all round Nice Girl who loves nothing more than great food paired with wonderful wines & beers.â€
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Chef Anna
My chefing career started at the Australian National Convention Centre where I trained as an apprentice & fell in love with function work. The thrill of running multiple functions at the same time & working in big teams to bring everything in on time is, without a doubt a bit of a buzz!
Working with a huge team of blokie Chefs who managed to describe most mouth watering, taste tantalizing and exquisite dishes prefixed by a four-letter word or two was a little challenging I’ll admit for this little Lady Chef, but loads of fun & an experience I’m so glad I’ve had.
“Good Bye Chefy-Shoes & Hello Jimmy Choo”
After almost a decade in the kitchen & a bit more study, I packed away my cheffies & followed the sweet lure of Hotel & Event Management. Cooking professionally was a great experience & it certainly opened the door to lots of fun working holidays abroad but I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful it was to dress like a girl again & my love affair with hospitality & function work cranked up to the next level.
Now, if I’m not spending time with clients designing their dream wedding or functions, you’ll find me hanging out with the guys in the kitchen creating menus or out & about interviewing ‘behind the scenes’ stories for The Hospitality Guru.
What’s The Hospitality Guru all about?
The H.G. started out almost by accident when a lot of my apprentice chefs suffered from the wise, wonderful & political decisions to cut a Chefs ‘apprenticeship’ period in half in an effort to meet the skill demand in our industry. I started to share a lot of my own training notes & made a few videos for my guys to help them with their techniques & terminology. I mean seriously, who wants a trained Chef in the kitchen who has no idea what a Mirepoix or a Beurre Noisette is, right?
Too many really bright & enthusiastic young Chefs were getting browned off & were loosing their enthusiasm because even though they’d studied hard & did their best, they simply didn’t have enough technical information, or a understanding of how commercial kitchens operated & they needed help.
Over time, my notes became a handout & things have grown, where today The Hospitality Guru ‘Back to Basics’ hub page series is available free of charge on the internet. I’m now supported by a growing team of chefs who share their expertise on the HG training videos; a professional video production company & a marketing guru, who all work behind the scenes & are helping me create training products for chefs & other hospitality related products.
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Ciao Anna,
Your blog is wonderful.. my best regards
thank you for comment in my blog!! Unfortunately i don’t have FB account
Aurelio
Thanks a bunch for stopping by Aurelio, my family loves Tuscan Cooking so looking forward to your new posts also.
Hey Anna, thank you so much for dropping by my blog. I think your blog is great. Looking forward to reading more!
Hi Anna,
Very interesting Blog you’ve got here.
Would love to chat to you about how we could possibly work together?
Drop me a line if you’re interested. We run a website for Chefs only, but I see some interesting areas of opportunity.
Cheers,
M
Hello Anna,
I saw your comment on my site, and wanted to say hi. Your site is really wonderful, I am excited to read more about it. I have thought about going back to school to be a chef. However, not sure if I really want to do a third degree. So I have been looking at ways to grow as a chef without getting a degree. I look forward to watching the videos you have here from chef’s sharing their experiences.
I have added you on twitter, my twitter is @foodsafetylady
Hope you have a wonderful week,
Terra
http://www.cafeterrablog.com
Hey Terra, great to connect with you. There are heaps of ways to grow as a chef without going through all the training, I love to share, so stay tuned. Will connect up with you on social media too. Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
You have written a lot of very good articles on your site. There’s loads of information I generated from it. Great work, thanks.
Thanks, glad your enjoying them
You ought to really think about working on developing this blog into a major authority in this market. You evidently have a grasp and handle of the topics everyone is searching for on this website anyways and you could certainly even earn a buck or two off of some advertisements. I would explore following recent topics and raising the amount of write ups you put up and I guarantee you’d begin seeing some amazing targeted traffic in the near future. Just a thought, good luck in whatever you do!
Wow! Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comment
Where did you learn how to make such beautiful looking dishes? i bet they taste AMAZING!
Your blog is fresh and inspiring and really motivating for up and coming hospitality professionals and food lovers. Your recipes are lovely and beautifully presented.
Cheers for sharing your passion with us. M