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Matthew Evans



Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation that chefs don’t have the best produce in the land, normal people who live close to the land do. So he moved to Tasmania, to a small patch of earth, where he’s raising pigs and sheep, milking a cow and waiting for his chickens to start laying.

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Episode 10 : Feast
Thursday 16 May 2013, 8:00PM

It’s been a year since Matthew expanded his business and bought the new farm, and it’s been a steep learning curve for both him and...

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