Trying desperately hard to approach homeliness from a professional cook’s perspective is always going to be a hard task to pull off. After all, do you roast your own muesli? Do you turn to a recipe book for an ‘open sandwich’ recipe or instructions on salad assembly? Probably not right? But it’s easy to criticise and this book is full of plenty inspiring ideas such as roast chicken curry and Chinese style omelette with barbequed pork. It’s real, it’s homely, but it’s occasionally fancy – it’s a hard line to tread and he almost pulls it off.

It’s hard to see why Granger would want to crack Britain to quite the degree that he clearly does. His love of Australian’s golden shores shines through in the contemporary often Oriental-influenced flavours he brings to the table. It’s almost like he’s saying, “This is how I live, wouldn’t you like to live like this too?”

If anything, Granger’s hasn’t ‘introduced’ the recipes to any great extent. He hasn’t put them in context in the same way that he does on television. Don’t just roll out another recipe for classic meatballs (did we need another one?) please Bill. Tell us why this is a great meal for raining afternoons when all you want is the coziness of a warm kitchen and a bowl of comfort food to match.

The book’s magnum opus may be hidden in the startling simplicity and originality of a bowl of onion soup. Not French onion soup you understand, not even Australian onion soup (if it exists), but instead Italian onion soup. What a revelation! We all love Italian food but most of us probably think that Italian soup stops with minestrone. The secret is balsamic vinegar and oregano. Of course! Why didn’t we think of that? Because Bill did, that’s why. Good on you mate.