I write features and take photographs for print and digital publications, focusing on food, culture, farming, climate and sustainability topics. My favourite pieces to work on bring together all of these themes and their intersections.
Here’s a selection of my published work:
SBS Food
Were Indigenous Australians the world’s first bakers?
Kangaroo: the meat we don’t eat
Meet the exciting single flower honeys of Australia
Climate change is messing up Australia’s native spice supplies
What’s the deal with wild foods?
In Transylvania, a country brunch with benefits
Sweet devotion in Sicily
This tiny town hosts a massive festival of cheese
Taste of Indigenous food delights mammoth food festival in Italy
It was all a lie: the scandalous history of pasta
Fringe Foodies: Giulia Bernardelli
Celebration: Kräftskiva
Culinary Postcard: Alto Adige, Italy
Sweet ricotta dumplings with poppy seeds (canederli dolci di ricotta)
ABC Online
Seeding the future: tapping gene banks to secure our food future
The fine art of local food foraging
Biodynamics: food revolution or magical mumbo jumbo?
Broadsheet Sydney
The Cooks Co-op by Martin Boetz
Peanut Buttered
A Fresh Fratelli Fresh
A Vinous Nomad in Surry Hills
Vincent’s Curds and Whey – A Lesson in Cheesemaking
Thirty-Six Hours of pre-Christmas Trading at the Sydney Fish Market
Into the Cheese Cabinet with Simon Johnson
Chutney For Good
The Work of Two Chaps
Italy’s Top to Toe
Dispatch from London: Brett Graham
Country Style
A family raising contented, free-wandering pigs
delicious.
Test report: The Cook School by Ballintaggart, Scotland
24 hours in Turin
Meet the Insta-foragers
Gourmet Traveller
Native title
The new spice traders
A rock and a hard place
Smoke and terroirs
Next stop Barbaresco (plus online)
Griffith Review
Kale as old as time: the return to traditional food
Edition 35 - ‘Surviving’ interview series
Life & Thyme
Pasta Grannies take tradition digital
A fresh take on Scottish dining in Edinburgh
In London, Growing Underground looks for long-term farming solutions
Defending the dehesa: pampering Iberian pigs on an Andalusian forest-farm
Turin: City of Specialty
Coffee rituals around the world
The evolution of the espresso martini
Lonely Planet
Edinburgh’s best restaurants: where to eat in the Scottish capital
Burns Night feasting: a guide to Scotland’s national supper
Piedmont’s top dishes and where to try them
The 5 best day trips from Turin
15 free things to do in Turin
Modern Farmer
Italian snail farmers slide into caviar scene
Farmers’ favorite disaster kit tools
The Guardian
Pickling paradise: the joys of fermenting food at home
The Planthunter
Chasing bees in Sardinia
Wild cherries and moonshine in the Albanian Alps
The Sunday Telegraph
Fresh from Italy – 5 of the best Italian food markets
The Sydney Morning Herald
TedxSydney dishes the dirt on ‘crowd farming’
Table for two, or more
Restaurateurs’ favourite Surry Hills haunts
Time Out Sydney
Food and Drink Future Shaper: Palisa Anderson
VICE
This tiny Sardinian island is doing nose-to-tail tuna
Creepy goat-men are the stars of Sardinia’s annual citrus festival