Featured businesses: Jewish

Contact the businesses featured in the Jewish episode of Food Safari.

Ingredients segment

Meera Freeman is one of Australia’s top cooking teachers and food authors, who says her lifelong devotion to good food comes from her Jewish upbringing. She is the owner-operator of the Meera Freeman Cooking School and gives regular courses in North African, Italian, Thai and Vietnamese cuisines. Meera also takes gastronomic tours to Morocco and closer to home; the Vietnamese precinct in Melbourne. She has written three cookbooks; A Season in Morocco, The Flavours of Vietnam and Cooking Class.

Stark’s Kosher Groceries

95 Hall Street

Bondi NSW

[phone]

Bondi Fruitologist

151 Bondi Road

Bondi NSW

[phone]

Kosher meat segment

Tom Rev is the owner of Eilat at Hadassa. He is one of only five kosher butchers in Australia, servicing the whole of NSW.

Eilat at Hadassa

17 O’Brien Street

Bondi NSW 2065

[phone]

Solomon Kosher Butcher

140 Glen Eira Road

Elsternwick Vic 3185

Brisket segment

Caterer and personal chef Corby-Sue Nuemann’s love of food was learnt from her Austrian-Jewish chef father. Corby-Sue contributes regular recipes to the Australian Jewish News and runs her business out of Sydney. www.corbyscatering.com.au

Sephardic/Israeli food segment

Iraqi born, Israeli Erez Sharaba is the co-owner-operator of Sabbaba in Sydney’s Bondi.

Sabbaba

82 Hall Street

Bondi NSW 2026

[phone]

Kosher fish segment filmed at:

The One That Got Away

163 Bondi Road

Bondi NSW 2026

[phone]

Yumis Kosher Seafood

29 Glen Eira Road,

Ripponlea, Vic 3185

[phone]

Shabbat segment

Shimon Manshari is the owner of Kimberley Gardens restaurant and function centre in Melbourne’s East St Kilda.

Kimberley Gardens

441 Inkerman Street

East St Kilda, Vic 3183

[phone]

www.kimberleygardens.com.au

Cake segment

Along with her father and brother, Nikki Laski runs Monarch Cakes. This "institution" on Melbourne’s famous cake strip in Acland Street, St Kilda, has been baking from the same recipes for over 75 years. Many of the recipes originated from the shop in Poland and were brought by the family to Australia.

Monarch Cakes

103 Acland Street

St Kilda, Vic 3182

[phone]

www.monarchcakes.com.au