Where this all began

I first fell in love with kitchens when I was a kid. My mum worked in a restaurant and I’d help her on weekends buttering garlic bread and fan strawberries (remember those!) before the dinner service. I loved every second.

When I was ten, we moved out of Sydney to a small, rural farming community in the Central West of NSW, where breeding lamb and beef became our everyday. And while I hated it at the time, I now realise it has shaped me into who I am today. Good, seasonal produce is what I cook with day in, and day out. While I don’t live by this to the extreme, it’s something I find quite natural.

Early on, I spent a few years working as a chef, both in Australia and the UK (where I met my Irishman) but eventually learned that cooking commercially just wasn’t my future.  I somehow convinced him to move back home and I now spend my days pottering around the store (our family-owned, culinary + food store) teaching people about good food, and how to cook it. Oh, and did I mention pasta? Because ending the day with a big bowl of pasta and a glass of wine in front of Netflix is what my dreams are made of. You can find my favourite pasta recipe here.