Ed Charles

Ed Charles

Ed Charles is a food and drink and business journalist. What he is not, is a foodie. In fact, he has instructed his wife to slap him if he shows any signs of foodie-ism. This includes waxing lyrical about the new season’s peaches, slurping his wine to aerate his palate and mentioning Heston Blumenthal more than five times a day.

Ed began his food career as finance journalist being wined and dined in London and Europe’s best restaurants by some of the City’s biggest swinging dicks. His career highlights as a finance journalist include being banned from Warburg’s merchant bank and upsetting the UK’s largest arms dealer, basically all the wrong people.
And this is probably why a career writing about food beckoned.

In 2005 he established the cheeky Melbourne-based food blog Tomato where he has started to annoy the right people.
Subsequently he’s written about food and restaurants for titles including SBS Food, the Herald Sun, The Australian, and GQ and reviewed restaurants for The Age’s Good Food Guide and the Gourmet Traveler Restaurant Guide.

His pastimes – apart from food, drink and photographing food in restaurants – include digging up his front garden to create a vegetable patch and walking his dogs along St Kilda beach to avoid kite surfing.

Articles by Ed Charles

Building the ultimate burger

Building the ultimate burger

27 Nov 09 The gourmet burger is now mainstream. Even Hungry Jacks has its own salt and fat packed version dragging down the…... Read more

Finger-licking good: a brief history of food sex

Finger-licking good: a brief history of food sex

27 Oct 09 Only the other night gazing out at the opera house from Quay restaurant in Sydney I had the good fortune…... Read more

Restaurant awards are the nation’s silliest private party

Restaurant awards are the nation’s silliest private party

10 Sep 09 Restaurant award season is finally over. But I’m wondering if anybody really cares outside those who won gongs from the…... Read more

Eaaaarggh…what really made you sick last night

10 Jul 09 Restaurants are defensive of their hygene in the same way that newspapers are defensive of the accuracy of their reporting.…... Read more

Watch out gastrosexuals: 11 ways to spot a food tosser

03 Jun 09 Typical. Just as the world peaked Paul Levi, the man who had no small part in bringing us the slightly…... Read more

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