An enthusiastic and passionate cook from the moment she put a pan on the stove, Beverley Sutherland Smith s hobby of cooking and love of food quickly turned into a business. Late in 2002, her 27th cookbook was published, titled The Seasonal Kitchen it is not only a cook book but displays her new interest - the Edible Garden which has been designed around her home to link with her love of food. The Beverley Sutherland-Smith Cooking School was the winner of the Monash Business Award for Micro Home Based Business 2002-2003.

COOKING SCHOOL
Beverley opened a cooking school in 1967, one of the first schools in Melbourne and it is still in operation. The school now ranks as one of the longest running schools in Australia.

MAGAZINES / NEWSPAPERS / INTERNET
Beverley began writing for the first issues of Gourmet Magazine, now Gourmet Traveller . She later became a feature writer for Epicurean Magazine and for Wine News . In 1977 Beverley began a regular weekly column in The Age which ran until 1996. She has been food writer for Enjoy Magazine and, for 5 years was food writer for the Weekly Times . For several years, Beverley developed lift out cooking mini-supplements for New Idea Magazine and for two years wrote a weekly column for the Sun Herald Food and Drink Section. If you 'Google' Beverley's name on the net, you will find many articles on her and many of her recipes. See the links of interest below.

TRAVEL
Beverley has travelled extensively through the years and has met many famous people of the food world and eaten in the most interesting and well known restaurants of the world. She writes columns or lectures on her travels. Beverley regularly takes gourmet tours to different countries throughout the world such as France, Italy, United States, London, Scandinavia, Russia, Ireland, Portugal, to visit restaurants and keep up with the changing food scene. The last trip in May was to Sicily; prior to that to Lake Como, Venice and Florence travelling to some of the villages, tasting local foods both from markets and little family run restaurants. The chefs give her recipes from their kitchens which are used in newspaper stories; magazines and in the cooking school and catering business. The gourmet food tours also concentrate on gardens and where possible ceramics which are a feature of each country, especially Italy.

GARDEN
Beverley s latest interest is the garden. This has been created and designed as a potager garden and is open to the public for special groups. The garden is largely devoted to edible flowers; herbs and unusual vegetables mingling with cottage plants and roses. The Edible Garden is now open as part of the Australian Garden Scheme. Click here to view more details of the Edible Garden.

CATERING
Special attention is paid to individual menus for each client, Beverley believes this best reflects her attention to detail and the catering business specialises in both corporate and private functions with an emphasis on very light, fresh food. Finger food or beautiful buffet food seems to have become the most popular items at the moment for clients. We have many files filled with letters from happy people who praise the flavours and beautiful presentation of food at our functions. Click here to view more details regarding Beverley's catering facilities and services.

Links
It is important to show links on a website to show you, as the individual browsing this website, that Beverley offers bonafide services and products. You will quickly find that her brilliant reputation spreads far and wide throughout the world wide web.