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Ben

O'Donoghue

Average

Brown - Light

Engand

White

Male

Australian

For chef and television presenter Ben O’Donoghue, cooking is a passion and a reflex, it’s something he’s done since childhood and it never ceases to give him pleasure or stimulate his imagination. He unequivocally believes that food should be simple and distinctive, technically and culturally correct. Ben started his career working in a number of top class Australian restaurants including Tribeca and Goodfellas in Sydney and Jessica’s in Perth before moving to London ten years ago. For four years he worked at The River Café and then joined his mate Jamie Oliver at the exclusive Monte`s Club as Executive chef. He then worked as Executive Chef at the famous Atlantic Bar & Grill and helped Oliver Peyton win the contract to open the National Dining Room at the National Gallery with his creative and seasonal menus. Ben is now living back in Australia after 13 years in the UK. He has just finished filming the brand new series of The Best in Australia. His television credits also include four series of the internationally acclaimed food and travel program, Surfing the Menu, a journey to source and cook with the finest, freshest ingredients from all over Australia and New Zealand. The popular series screens in Australia and the UK and has also been sold to over 30 other territories. He was the food judge for Lifestyle Food’s recent Great BBQ Challenge series; MasterChef and has also appeared on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and Planet Food. Ben writes a regular food column ‘Ben’s Basics’ for Olive Magazine in the UK as well as a regular column for Delicious Magazine in Australia. In his spare time, Ben enjoys surfing, fly-fishing and playing with his three children.

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Ben's Barbecue [2009] (Hardie Grant Books), Surfing the Menu [2004] (ABC Books), Surfing the Menu Again [2005] (ABC Books)

Ben O'Donoghue is an Australian chef and television personality. Currently he is one of the hosts and contestants of The Best in Australia airing on LifeStyle Food.

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