10 AUSTRALIAN CHEFS: Who Become Global Celebrities

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10 AUSTRALIAN CHEFS
Who Become Global Celebrities
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Introduction

• Its quite challenging to work in the restaurant
  industry, where customers can be challenging to
  please, and the hours or deadlines are highly
  demanding. However, a lot of chefs have
  established themselves in Australia as well as
  other regions of the world, but only a few have
  achieved celebrity status.
• Due to Australias vibrant food culture and the
  success of reality cooking competition shows like
  My Kitchen Rules and Masterchef on television
  over the past ten years, Australian chefs are
  well-known throughout the world, and the country
  is also home to several well-known celebrity
  chefs.

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• Some of Australias well-known chefs run
  restaurants with lengthy waits and have been
  awarded Michelin stars.
• This article will introduce you to the best
  Australian chefs, who are well-known around the
  world as celebrities.

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Curtis Stone

• Curtis Stone was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
  When Curtis Stone was 2 years old, his parents,
  Lorraine, a florist, and Bryan Stone, an
  accountant, divorced. At the age of four, his
  grandmother started teaching him how to cook.
  Stone studied home economics at an all-boys high
  school before beginning an apprenticeship in
  commercial cooking at a technical institute. He
  finished his Bachelor of Business degree before
  opting to get into the culinary industry.

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• Many celebrity chefs in Australia may be found on
  Australian TV reality shows like MasterChef and
  MKR, but few have the global reach of Curtis
  Stone, who broke into US television a decade ago.
  

• 43-year-old Curtis Stone immediately rose to fame
  after his participation in the third season of
  The Celebrity Apprentice. Curtis began his
  culinary career at the Savoy Hotel when he was 18
  years old before moving to London to work with
  Marco Pierre White. In 2014, he opened the
  Beverly Hills restaurant Maude, also owns Gwen,
  a classy restaurant in Los Angeles.

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Pete Evans

• Peter Daryl Evans, an Australian chef and former
  television host who served as a judge on the
  reality food competition My Kitchen Rules, was
  born on August 29, 1973. Evans has come under
  fire for advocating pseudoscientific diets like
  the palaeolithic diet and distributing false
  information regarding immunizations. He is a
  resident of Round Mountain, NSW.
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• At the age of 19, Pete started a career as a chef
  and restaurateur. The now-46-year-old went on to
  open several nationally acclaimed restaurants and
  has subsequently worked in some of the best
  eateries in the globe. Pete is a strong advocate
  of the paleo diet, and his love of good health
  and wellness can be seen in his food. He produced
  and hosted The Paleo Way for two seasons,
  presented The Moveable Feast, and served as a
  judge and co-host for nine seasons of My Kitchen
  Rules. His other works include Eat Your Greens,
  Low Carb, and Healthy Fat.

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George Calombaris

• Chef and restaurateur George Dimitrios Calombaris
  was born in Australia on October 4, 1978. From
  2009 to 2019, Calombaris served as one of the
  judges for the Network 10 program MasterChef
  Australia. Before he participated in MasterChef
  Australia, Calombaris frequently made appearances
  on the Network Ten daytime cookery programme
  Ready Steady Cook. He had several restaurants in
  Melbourne. The Press Club, his flagship
  restaurant, was selected as Best New Restaurant
  2008 by The Age Good Food Guide, and Calombaris
  was named Chef of the Year 2008. Calombaris
  finds inspiration in his Italian, Greek, and
  Cypriot ancestry.

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• He is one of the very few famous chefs in
  Australia, most well known for his work as a
  judge on all 10 seasons of MasterChef and his
  passion for Italian, Greek, and Cypriot cuisine.

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• Emma is a former professional athlete who
  competed for Australia in track cycling. She has
  always believed that her competitive nature
  helped her succeed in the MasterChef Australia
  kitchen and realise her aspirations of being the
  best chef in Australia.
• Emma Dean was named the series 5 champions of
  MasterChef Australia on September 1st, 2013.
  Attica chef Ben Shewrys complex Plight of the
  Bees was the challenging dessert pressure test
  that pitted Dean against Lynton Tapp in the final
  round.

Emma Dean
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Adam Liaw

• Australian-Malaysian chef Adam Liaw rose to fame
  after taking home the title on MasterChefs
  second season. Liaw was born in Penang, Malaysia,
  to an English mother who was born in Singapore
  and a Malaysian Chinese father. He has an older
  brother and a younger sister, and he is the
  second of three children. At age 3, his family
  relocated to Adelaide. Liaw thought about a
  multitude of alternatives after winning the
  competition, including founding an izakaya
  restaurant. He later returned to MasterChef as a
  guest judge for seasons 4 and 6.

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Kylie Kwong

• Kylie Kwong was born in Sydney, Australia, to a
  fourth-generation Australian-Chinese family. She
  first studied the fundamentals of Chinese cooking
  at her mothers restaurant before continuing to
  hone her craft with some of the best Australian
  Chefs.

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• After working at some of Sydneys best eateries,
  including Rockpool, Wockpool, and Manfredi, Kylie
  realised her ambition of opening her own
  restaurant. In October 2003, Kylie Kwong Heart
  and Soul made its debut, and it has since been
  widely distributed. She has written six books,
  including Kylie Kwong Recipes And Stories
  (2003), Kylie Kwong Heart and Soul (2003),
  Simple Chinese Cooking (2006), My China A Feast
  For All The Senses (2007), It Tastes Better
  (2010), and Kylie Kwongs Simple Chinese Cooking
  Class. She currently hosts Kylie Kwong Simply
  Magic on The LifeStyle Channel and LifeStyle FOOD
  (2012.)

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Peter Gilmore

• Australian born Peter Gilmore, who is currently
  44 years old, was raised in the state capital. He
  began his service at the age of sixteen after
  being inspired to cook early in life. He then
  worked in kitchens abroad and in rural New South
  Wales during his twenties. His fame began in 2000
  when he served as Head Chef at Whale Beachs
  Diamond State Beers restaurant. De Beers homes a
  young chef with a great gift for producing out
  the superb structured meals with intuitive
  simplicity, noted Terry Durack, a culinary
  critic for the state capital Morning Herald.

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• He has just opened Bennelong in the state capital
  opera in 2009. He previously appeared as a guest
  chef on Masterchef Australia, where his
  speciality dish, the Snow Egg, was hailed as
  one of the shows toughest tasks.

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Matt Moran

• Matt Moran was raised on a farm at Badgerys
  Creek, west of the state capital. Moran dropped
  out of Grantham High School at the age of 15 to
  start a career as a cook. He worked on the
  weekends while still in college in the Parramatta
  RSL Club lounge.

• Since then, he has grown his empire to include
  some of Sydneys finest dining establishments,
  including the modern Australian grill Chophouse,
  the Circular Quay institution Aria, and the
  recently opened Barangaroo House, a bold new
  three-level space composed of the laid-back House
  Bar, the upscale Bea Restaurant, and the rooftop
  Smoke Bar.

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Neil Perry

• Neil Perry is one of the most significant
  Australian famous chefs to date, who founded the
  wildly successful Rockpool empire. The
  62-year-old is well known for his dedication to
  using only the freshest, highest-quality
  Australian ingredients in all seven of his
  eateries.Neil is the host of the
  multi-award-winning Food Source Neil Perry,
  Neil Perry Fresh Fast, and Neil Perry Rockpool
  Sessions programmes on The LifeStyle Channel.

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Shane Osborn

• Shane Osborn, who was born in Australia, lived in
  the UK for 20 years before settling permanently
  in Hong Kong. Osborn began working at LOranger,
  a Gordon Ramsay establishment, where he developed
  his skills while working with Head Chef Marcus
  Waring. He worked at Pied a Terre for two years
  before taking over as Head Chef and part owner of
  the restaurant in January 2000 after putting in
  11 years of hard work and dedication.
• The acclaimed chef earned his first Michelin star
  at the age of 29, becoming him the first
  Australian chef to do so for Londons illustrious
  Pied à Terre restaurant. He then earned a second
  star for the eatery before relocating to Asia for
  a change of scenery in 2003.
• When he received his first star in 2018, his
  diligence paid off. Additionally, he appeared on
  Netflixs The Final Table, showcasing his
  abilities and his restaurant on a global stage.