The Dirty Chef: From Big City Food Critic to Foodie Farmer by Matthew Evans

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    • Ingredients: milk; nutmeg; currants; plain flour; butter; brandy
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  • ISBN 10 1743316968
  • ISBN 13 9781743316962
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  • Published Oct 01 2013
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries Australia
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin Australia
  • Imprint Allen & Unwin

Publishers Text

The funny, heart-warming and at times exhausting behind-the-scenes story of Matthew Evans' transformation from high-profile food critic to television's Gourmet Farmer.

From an often controversial job as one of Australia's most powerful food critics, Matthew Evans stepped, unknowing and untested, off the treadmill. Leaving the urban grit of a terrace house in Sydney's inner west, he ended up on 20 acres in Australia's most southernmost shire; a smallholder farmer in Tasmania with no clue. What is it really like to take the plunge and leave a whole world of familiar people, places and work behind? How does it feel to have never used a cordless drill, to suddenly plant a garden, to milk a cow, to build sheds and shelters? And what if a TV show is filming the transformation at the same time? This is the story of that transformation. The story of a life more in tune with the seasons and more connected to the soil. A life that is as rewarding as it is exhausting. The story of a family trying to turn a living from the ancient, noble art of growing things on the land.



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