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i Couch potato fitness levels, from beginners to fluent speakers. Each lesson costs $34, which is all inclusive except for the textbook. For more information call Maria D'Amico on 953 2859. the French don't always win. Australia showed its colours with a young team of Phillip Hore and Adao Arcado from the Hilton, Peter Phillips from Paris Cakes, and captained by Herve Boutin of Hotel Nikko.

For a country with an almost cursory concept of la grande patisserie, and for a team with limited resources, 10th place was commendable. subscription of $20 provides 10 issues of the letter, which contains recipes, tips, cookbook reviews and and discounts for books and equipment One project is the compilation of a book of members' sure-fire recipes. You know, the ones that 'cake recipe you got from Aunt Chloris's dotty friend that never fails, that looks spectacular and takes only 10 minutes to whip up. The Australian Cookery Letter, 427150 You health, including the latest breaks throughs in medical research. But EveryBody concentrates on prevention, rather than cure.

"But we promise not to Dr Phelps says. "We're four ordinary mums and dads we're not fit eithr Mike Hamilton, former journalist EAT drink and be merry, and tomorrow you may die. Actually, this sort of message is just what Every Body, the new ABC health program, is trying to avoid. "It isn't a hard sell on health," says Mike Hamilton, one of the reporters. Queen Street, Woollahra 2025.

fou Sri i. -i S-hp wo rds inh about calorie-free food (because no doubt the little woman has a weight problem) and comes to a purple climax with this reminder: "Don't forget to make a reservation for that ultimate night of romance St. Valentine's Day There will be a special menu, a free glass of Champagne and a red rose for your sweetheart!" Welcome guests 'TIS the season for haute cuisine in Australia. We suppose it is the northern winter that brings guest chefs to hotels from Italy, Germany and France. The Ritz Carlton has just had Dieter MOller who cooks at a two-star Michelin establishment in Germany and is ranked in the world's top 16 by Gault Millau.

The Park Hyatt has imported chef Jean Bardet from Tours in France, and his sommelier wife Sophie who will be guest chef and sommelier at No. 7 at The Park from February 22 to March 1. Bardet was voted chef of the year in France in 19S6, and his restaurant now has two coveted Michelin stars. Gteme de la cream cakes PR release Id 1 II It i "We re reasonable people. We eat the wrong things and drink too much occasionally and even smoke the odd cigar.

None of us are super-fit The program will simply suggest a few little things people can do to live a healthier life." EveryBody will screen on the ABC for a half hour each Thursday for 13 weeks, beginning this week. Trisha God-dard, former presenter of The 7.30 Report, will anchor the show and present a segment called Body Bits, revealing why we cry at happy with the Today Show on Channel 9, is the roving reporter for EveryBody. "It's great working for the ABC," he says. "Everything is so well-researched. You don't get that sort of back-up in commercial television." Mr Hamilton says that although EveryBody does provide some light entertainment, it is not all froth and bubble.

"We tackle the meaty issued as well," he says. Testicular cancer is one story Hamilton covered recently and he was very pleased with the MSfires Pick of the week Trisha Goddard THE Japanese have out-Frenched the French to take out first prize in the Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie Valrhona. A Lyons trade fair, known by the acronym SIRHA, sponsors the Coupe and the Bocuse D'Or, the world's most prestigious competitions in both patisserie and cooking. The brilliant winning entry spoke volumes about the' Japanese ability to devote enormous resources to becoming the leaders in any field they wish to enter more so in the area of cooking, given that the boundaries are very, very French. Patisserie in France is much more than your humble croissant (they're mostly machine-made) but rather embraces the laborious and art-directed world of wonderfully intricate petit fours, illustrious chocolates, heavenly ice-creams, all presented with flair that would arrest you at a French shop window.

But surprises are common at SIRHA Gastro files Of verbs and herbs LEARNING a language can be extremely tedious; all those subjunctives and past perfects. But Maria D'Amico has come up with a way to sweeten the pill a little. Her language lessons are called Eataliano, and run between 6.30 and 9 pm over a 20-week term. The classes are divided into two parts, a structured language learning section, and an eating section where Italian food and wine is sampled. The Eataliano classes are held in Cremorne and begin this week.

There are four THE blurb-writer for the San Francisco Grill lunch club at the Hilton needs to be booted into the 1990s. One professional woman is miffed, to say the least, by the latest missive sent to her by this Rip Van Winkle of PR. It starts: "To herald the New Year, the San Francisco Grill will extend the privileges of your Luncheon Club card to your wife (or Husband) their capitalisation throughout the month of January!" It carries on: "So, if your wife is planning to spend a day at the sales or even the whole week, she can also spend an hour or two relaxing over lunch with friends. They'll be able to show off their bargains whilst enjoying a bargain!" The scribe then warbles on WE have it on great authority that plums are superb. Local Narrabeen plums have just come into season, and they are selling for about $4 a kilo.

There are also tasty, yellow Wickens plums and Lorado plums available, selling at a kilo, depending on size and markings. Black Friar plums, with black skins and yellow flesh, are also selling for about $4 a kilo. endings, why fingers wrinkle in the bath, why hair goes grey, and whether aphrodisiacs work. There's also a series of celebrity check-ups, in which unsuspecting celebrities are given a complete going-over and all their sore points revealed on air. Su Cruickshank and Wayne Gardner were two of the victims.

Dr Kerryn Phelps, ex-medical reporter with Good Morning Australia on Channel 10, concentrates on the slightly more technical aspects of good latitude allowed him. "We could actually show a pair of healthy balls," he says. "You'd never get away with that on commercial TV." Gabriel Gate, the fourth presenter, is a chef and writer. His recipe books for the Anti-Cancer Council are runaway successes; he hosts a Melbourne radio program and writes a column for a Sydney newspaper. Mr Gate demonstrates healthy recipes, the principles of healthy cooking and how to buy the best ingredients.

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