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18-02-2021
Column: Food for Thought - SPARTAN SALMON SUMMER SALAD
Column: Food for Thought - SPARTAN SALMON SUMMER SALAD
It's 1998 and I’m 17 and living with my mother in Sydney’s western suburb of Campbelltown. I have just finished my first year as an apprentice, in a bistro in Balmain. I was travelling three hours return for work, because the restaurants in my area were not very good. But this long commute was taking a toll on me, as often either the train or one of the busses was late and I’d then be late for work. So, one day my head chef told me it was the last straw after I arrived 10 minutes late again, said she’d had had enough.
So, I decided to apply for a job in Bondi at Hugo’s. Fortunately, my grandparents had agreed that I could live with them in their Bronte home for a year.
It was here I met my first real mentor, Pete Evans. He took a liking to my work ethic and took me under his wing and began to show me how to win the chef game.
He was very tough on me, not allowing me to go on breaks and would make me stay back and clean up when everyone else was having a knock off drink. He would make me memorise recipes an

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