Vic Cherikoff

Vic Cherikoff regarded as connoisseurs Australian Bush Foods ( also called Bush Tucker ), the traditional diet and food preparation of the Aborigines. He has some of the 35 vegetable food of the Aboriginal interest selected and marketed. He is the author of three books and numerous scientific publications. It has the Australian cuisine made ​​famous with his TV-show Dining Downunder, which was broadcast in 48 countries. He financed, produced and hosted TV shows with chefs, Benjamin Christie and Mark McCluskey. Traveling with Christie and presents Cherikoff the Australian cuisine around the world, often with the Australian Trade Commission ( Austrade ) and in international hotels.

In the 1980s Cherikoff worked in the Human Nutrition Unit, University of Sydney, where he investigated the medicinal value of the diet of Aborigines with Professor Jennie Brand - Miller. Cherikoff earned a bachelor degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Technology conducts research and clinical pharmacy as well as medical Food Sciences by.

In the mid-1980s, he founded the Bush Tucker Supply Pty Ltd, a division of Vic Cherikoff Food Services Pty Ltd was later. He develops products and sells them, such as ingredients for chefs, manufacturers of food and drinks, the cosmetics industry and applying them in books and on television. As a wholesaler Cherikoff played a role in the early development of modern production of food of Australian aborigines, where he joined the regional food supply with the markets, thereby supporting the Aboriginal communities and helped in securing employment. He works with other Bush -food manufacturers that were as pioneers, and wrote several books about Bush Food: The Bush Food Handbook, Uniquely Australian, a book about cooking in the wilderness and Dining Downunder Cookbook which he with Benjamin Christie jointly wrote.

Cherikoff pursues even the development of ingredients so they meet the requirements of modern kitchen and modern manufacturing processes, such as soluble essential oils, encapsulated products, recycled oils, CO2 extracts and secret blends and formulas. He has also expanded the retail sale of its products.

  • Cherikoff, Vic, The Bush Food Handbook, ISBN 0-7316-6904-5
  • Cherikoff, Vic, Uniquely Australian, ISBN 0-646-07470-9
  • Cherikoff, Vic and Christie, Benjamin, The Dining Downunder Cookbook, ISBN 0-9752021-0-3
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