Mathew’s career has been as rich and exciting as the culinary delights he has become famous for.
Mathew’s career began at The Snooty Fox, a quaint little restaurant on the popular Dandenong Tourist Road. From there it was all up, securing a position at the iconic Café Cuccina in Melbourne’s trendy South Yarra to Hotel Sofitel. Mathew describes his experience there, under the direction of Raymond Capaldi and Marcus Moore as,”The best training a young chef could get.” From there it was off to Daylesford’s award winning Lake House where he progressed to Head Chef. During his nine years at the Lake House he made “guest chef” appearances in New Zealand, Fiji and Dubais. Mathew was awarded the title of Australia’s “Best Sous Chef” and chose as his prize a six week appointment at the famed New York Restaurant Daniel.
We caught up with Mathew at a recent demonstration at Ferndale Farmgate’s first Gourmet Greenhouse Farmers Market and asked him about his inspiration and his love of the Yarra Valley. Watch the interview below:
If you’d like to enjoy Mathew’s exquisite approach to food visit Chateau Yering’s Eleonore’s Restaurant or Sweetwater Cafe
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The World’s Longest Lunch held at Maryton Park Bed & Breakfast Country Cottages was the culmination of a concept that began way back in 2002. Last years event was canceled due to the fires, so this years event was the Marysville communities way of saying, “we’re back!” Thanks to the support of Tony and Penni Thompson(Maryton Park), the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, sponsors, friends and neighbors, the event was a fantastic success.
Adolescence is often filled with tales of woe. I can remember sitting in the Hoyts Midcity Cinema in the early 1980′s with tears welling up in my eyes as Sigrid Thornton played, or pretended to play, Jessica’s theme in The Man From Snowy River. Weeping in a movie was highly unusual for a boy in his late teens, especially when it was just a person playing a piano that caused such an emotional response. The humiliation of a row of high school students jeering, ‘look at him! He’s crying’, stays with you for some time.
The music Bruce composed (in only three weeks!) for The Man From Snowy River is so timeless in its appeal and has become so strongly etched in our musical psyche that there is a tendency to forget that this is now a thirty year old work and was, in fact Bruce’s first score for a feature film. Ask Bruce what he’s most proud of and he’ll tell you, “it’s not the Man From Snowy River, it’s my most recent work.”
