by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 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, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 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, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 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...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Europe, Nick Honeyman
Nick Honeyman Follow Born and raised in South Africa, Nick left at 18 to pursue a dream of becoming a world class chef with what he describes as “a burning passion for cooking”. In Sydney he enrolled in a four year course at a cooking school –...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, New Zealand, Norka Mella Munoz
Norka Mella Munoz Follow Norka Mella Muñoz is a talented chef originally from Santiago, Chile, with a passion for creating delicious dishes that celebrate the fusion of Chilean flavors and New Zealand’s local produce. Growing up in a household where her mother was a...
by Downing Designer | Jun 3, 2021 | 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, Amabassadors, Ambassadors Region, Ambassadors Year, Makoto Tokuyama, New Zealand
Makoto Tokuyama Follow It’s difficult for Makoto Tokuyama to pin down one dish that reminds him of growing up in Saga, Japan. Living in a Zen Buddhist temple meant mealtimes were always shared with the extended family and often consisted of seafood wrangled from the...
