by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Elijah Holland
Elijah Holland Follow Starting his career baking at the age of 12, working in restaurants and studying at Sydney hospitality school, EJ qualified as a chef by the age of 17. Working through many top restaurants around Australia, such as Aria, Jonahs, Fish Face and...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Jake Nicholson
Jake Nicolson Follow Jake Nicolson, Executive Chef for the Ghanem Group, began his cooking career at the Lake House in Daylesford under the guidance of respected chef and owner Alla Wolf Tasker. In 2004 he was the winner of the Borges/Ferran Adria culinary Scholarship...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Jesse McTavish
Jesse McTavish Follow Son of legendary surfboard designer, Bob McTavish, Jesse grew up with a love of surfing, fishing, and a deep respect for the ocean. There was something about cooking and ingredients that intrigued Jesse from an early age, and over the past 25...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Telina Menzies
Telina Menzies Follow Product development extraordinaire, professional eater & all round trouble-maker! Mum to two French Bulldogs: Pickles and Sprout, and a cat: Noodles. Telina first dipped her toes into the culinary world when she took an apprenticeship at the...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Ollie Hansford
Ollie Hansford Follow Ollie Hansford’s passion for food was originally ignited through watching cooking shows as a child, for which he developed an insatiable appetite. Later joining his father’s pâté business in Leicester in the United Kingdom, he delighted in the...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Australia, Ian Curley
Ian Curley Follow British-born and Australian-based, Ian Curley is one of the nation’s most awarded chefs. With an enduring 25-year tenure in Melbourne that has seen him at the helm of some of the city’s most iconic restaurants – including nine years at The Point...
