Sharing Stories

This book is a reflection of my life and my personality. It’s an open and honest document and I haven’t held much back. I want to show the reality and detail of being a chef. My restaurant might be ranked at number 63 in the world, but it doesn’t mean that the lifestyle is glamorous.

To me this book is much more than a cookbook. It’s part story book, part picture book, and I hope that people will read it from cover to cover. Personally, I’ve always loved recipe books that read more like story books. My stories are real stories, from my childhood growing up on an isolated farm in New Zealand to my training as a chef and the trials and tribulations of my early jobs, to my current life as the father of three young children and the chef of a successful Melbourne restaurant, Attica. I haven’t glossed over anything, I’ve told it how it is.