You’ve been using and championing Australian native ingredients through Warndu since 2016, your mission to “regenerate culture, community, tradition, health and our soils”. Why do you believe food is the best vehicle for this?
I find food to be, quite simply, a safe place for people. The sense of curiosity and safety that food creates is unlike anything else I’ve found, and it enables people to ask questions about culture they maybe wouldn’t have before. Cooking using native ingredients and sharing recipes and food from one culture to another opens up a very important dialogue and helps to nurture an environment built on mutual
