George Hill

George Everard Hill (born 20 May 1942) is an Australian chef, educator, and author. Hill is one of seven living Black Hat Chefs in Australia and is a "2004 Pioneer" amongst Les Toques Blanches (lit. "The White Hats") Executive Chefs of Australia. Career George Hill's professional career has borne a range of industrial titles, including these: chef de partie, chef de cuisine, executive chef, cookery teacher, commercial cookery educational manager, hospitality consultant, and business owner-operator. Hill started his cookery career in 1956 as an apprentice cook in the Cumberland Hotel London. In 1966, he immigrated to Australia and became an Australian citizen in 1979. His first job in Australia was as a chef at the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) Club in Melbourne. Following that, he was employed by the William Angliss Institute of TAFE in Melbourne as a commercial cookery teacher in 1971, where he eventually lead a teaching staff numbering more than thirty personnel in the foods department. Subsequently, Hill was promoted to one of the four program managers of the college. In 1983, he received the Australian Foodservice Manufacturers Association Award, which is conferred to those "seen to have done the most for the Foodservice industry". 1994 saw Hill's induction into the National Association of Foodservice Equipment Suppliers Hall of Fame, where he was "acknowledged for contribution as an educator" within the hospitality industry. In 1986, Hill moved to the new Chisholm Institute in Victoria to head the Tourism and Hospitality Faculty.