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ALMA PASALIC, RESTAURANT BOTANIC
lma Pasalic’s family moved from Bosnia to Australia as refugees in the mid ’90s. In her role as restaurant manager at Restaurant Botanic, resilience, storytelling and connection seem to come easy. Her descriptions of dishes verge on transcendental. Pasalic lives for delivering what she calls “eyebrow raising” moments; whether that’s presenting a knockout cocktail, helping to build