Mind Games: Food, Glorious Food: from Chocolate to Chardonnay - the fads, facts and fiction of food

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Duration: 1hr 48m

Moderator: Associate Professor Rob Morrison OAM

Nationally recognised as a science educator, Rob is also known for his attraction to food, although some describe this as a "quantity not quality" attitude. Scornful of the multi-star labelling of restaurants that produce unpronounceable, unrecognisable and miniscule dishes at very high prices, he has never understood why "meat and three veg'" has become a term of culinary abuse, along with the "chardonnay set" and "latte sippers" - he loves all of them. He also has a strong attachment to wine, his cellar boast perhaps the largest collection of "cleanskins under $4" known to man, and he believes that one of the most perceptive quotations dealing with the stuff was uttered by the man who claimed he was "born two drinks short". Rob retains his long time association with Flinders (and its merged institution Sturt CAE) and is currently Visiting Scholar with the University's School of Education.

Panellists:

Dr Julian Clark, BSc(Hons) 1973 Flin

Julian operates his own consulting business, Julian Clark Consulting Pty Ltd and is also Head of Business Development at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. Equipped with a First Class Honours Degree in genetics and a University Medal from Flinders, Julian embarked on a 21-year overseas working holiday in 1973. His robust education from Flinders enabled him to return triumphantly to Australia in 1994 with a PhD from the University of Glasgow, experience as a senior executive on four continents and a passion for food and music. Julian specialises in development and commercialisation strategies and draws on his direct experience in developing and marketing pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies and consumer products. He contributes to the development of a wide range of organisations including large corporations, universities, research institutes and start-up enterprises. Julian thrives at that often polarised interface between allopathic and complementary health care systems. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia and is a director of several companies including Alchemia, Genera Biosystems and Viridis.

Dr Lynne Cobiac, DipNut&Diet 1983, PhD(Med) 1993 Flin

Lynne is Business Development Manager of the CSIRO-led large multidisciplinary Preventative Health National Research Flagship that has researchers and partners throughout Australia. She has held numerous research and research management positions during her 20-years at the CSIRO, conducting research into the role of food and nutrition in heart disease, colorectal cancer and bowel health, and also consumer science research and dietary intake methodology development. She is taking a lead role in the new federally-funded national Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey of 4000 children. Lynne herself was a late developer and probably should have eaten better to enhance her development. She completed her training as a clinical dietitian at Flinders in pre-historic times, has worked as both a research and a clinical dietitian and has been the editor of the national dietetics journal. Lynne's major interests include food, eating it, burning it off with exercise and occasionally cooking it.

Dr Heather Bray

Duncan MacGillivray

Chairman, Longview Wines and pioneer of the "ready to drink" industry with his Two Dogs Alcoholic Lemonade. He is an acclaimed businessman who now runs Longview Vineyard at Macclesfield. He is passionate about the Longview brand and the Adelaide Hills Region, and through his positions on numerous boards including the Hutt Street Appeal, the Premier's Wine Council, the Premier's Food Council and SA Great, he proudly promotes the wines and the region. The MacGillivray family has been in the Coonawarra region for five generations. A passionate family of the land, rural interests now include Black Angus commercial herds at Wittalocka, Keith, and stud cattle herds adjacent to the Longview vineyard.

Kaye Mehta, BSc 1982, DipNut & Diet 1983 Flin

Kaye trained as a dietitian-nutritionist at Finders, graduating in 1982. Her career has been spent mainly in the community health sector and she has found her way back to Flinders to train the new generations of graduates. Her roles as parent and community nutritionist exposed her to the apalling state of junk food advertising to children and fired her up to be an advocate for change. She founded and still leads the national Coalition on Food Advertising to Children, representing our peak medical health and health associations, which is lobbying for regulatory reform to better protect children from the negative effects of unhealthy food advertisings. She has won some notoriety in this position, and gained friends and enemies in equal amounts. This area of community service and research endeavour has fed her needs for excitement, stimulation and learning on the job, and brought with it the edginess and paranoia of taking on big industries in the fight for public health. Kaye's areas of teaching cover social and cultural aspects of food choice, and public health and community nutrition.

 

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