Celebrity Chefs at Ekka This year, it’s not just the gas burners bringing fire power to the kitchen with hugely popular celebrity chefs Andy Hearnden and Matt Moran taking to the Royal Queensland Cooking Stage presented by Saveful.
Andy Hearnden - appearing 3pm Wednesday 14 August Andy Hearnden, better known as Andy Cooks, is a digital chef who creates cooking content for his 15 million subscribers across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Join the Kilcoy Global Foods Executive Chef as he inspires home cooks and budding chefs at the Royal Queensland Cooking Stage, presented by Saveful. Andy’s 20+ years’ experience includes working in restaurants across the world, from Auckland to London, Sydney and Melbourne. Andy is all about providing entertaining and educational content that highlights the best dishes from around the world. His focus is on good produce, good ingredients, good skills, and how to bring it all together into a great meal. It’s all about good food, for good people. Join Andy Cooks and the Kilcoy Global Foods team as they showcase award-winning beef, the world loves to eat.
Matt Moran - appearing 12pm Friday 16 August With a career spanning over 30 years in the Australian food industry, Matt Moran has a plethora of awards to his name, TV shows, best-selling cookbooks and ownership of some of Australia’s most celebrated dining establishments; it’s safe to say that Matt Moran is an Australian food icon. Matt is also a fourth-generation farmer with a rural upbringing on a dairy property. He still keeps his hand in the game with a property in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, which supplies beef and lamb to his restaurants. Hailed as one of the pioneers of the ‘paddock to plate’ philosophy, Matt is an Ambassador for Thankful for Farmers, and Partner and Ambassador of Saveful.
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