I love making it easy for everyone to explore new cuisines, ingredients, wines and places through small-group food and wine tours, fun foodie events and online cooking classes. 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. I’ve 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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