I love making it easy for everyone to explore new cuisines, ingredients, wines and places. I have a Master of Arts degree in Gastronomy and am a certified Sherry educator and cheese judge (I even wrote a little cheese book). For almost 25 years I ran Australia’s largest recreational cooking school, Sydney Seafood School at Sydney Fish Market. I became immersed in the exciting world of food and wine, forming friendships with many great chefs and awesome producers and learning a lot along the way. I’ve written cookbooks with some of them – A Lombardian Cookbook (with Alessandro Pavoni), A Sardinian Cookbook (with Giovanni Pilu), Wild Weed Pie (with Janni Kyritsis) and the Sydney Seafood School Cookbook – hosted cooking classes with just about all of them, and learnt to translate their ‘chef speak’ into ‘home cook speak’. I live in Sydney with my husband – photographer, spirits expert and fellow food and wine lover – Franz Scheurer.
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My work has been published online and in print in leading food and lifestyle publications in Australia and overseas (see articles archive), including:
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