Raw Chestnuts, Salt-Baked Celeriac, Pyengana

The Healey family have been making traditional cloth-bound cheddar in Pyengana in Tasmania’s far north-east for more than 100 years, making their cheddar the oldest specialist cheese in Australia. Cheesemaker and dairy farmer Jon Healey uses the knowledge passed down through three generations to produce my favourite Australian hard cheese. I believe it to be one of the very best ingredients we produce in Australia. It works well to give this dish the required depth of flavo