Vale Bill Granger

Cookbook author and restaurateur Bill Granger has died in London, aged 54.

Murdoch Books writes:

Murdoch Books has paid tribute to ‘King of Breakfast’ Bill Granger, who sadly passed away on 25 December at the age of 54.

Granger died ‘peacefully in hospital with his wife Natalie Elliott and three daughters, Edie, Inès and Bunny, at his bedside in their adopted home of London‘.

An Australian self-taught cook, Granger was a celebrated global restaurateur and food writer whose 30-year career included seven bestselling cookbooks with Murdoch Books, four with Quadrille/HarperCollins, five TV series, and 19 restaurants around the world. With a reputation for infusing his dishes with sunshine, Bill has long been crowned the ‘egg master of Sydney’ (New York Times), the ‘godfather of avocado toast’ (The Guardian) and ‘the restaurateur most responsible for the Australian café’s global reach’ (The New Yorker). In January last year, Granger was honoured with the Medal of the Order of Australia.

His most recent cookbook, Australian Food, was published by Murdoch Books in 2020—20 years after Granger’s first bestselling cookbook, Sydney Food, which celebrated his original restaurant bills in inner-city Darlinghurst, Sydney.

Jane Morrow, publishing director at Murdoch Books, said: ‘Murdoch Books was so proud to publish many of Bill’s seminal cookbooks, the most recent of which was warmly embraced by readers internationally even as the world was in lockdown and his businesses were shut. A kind and generous man, Bill will be greatly missed by all who knew him.’

Image credit: Hugh Steward.

Category: Obituaries