Autumn Apples

I like to create dishes that are a pure expression of their ingredients — dishes that make you sit up and pay attention. For me, that’s the ultimate respect I can pay the farmer and the core ingredient.

As a young boy I would listen to my late grandmother Lois complain of the lack of flavour and texture in store-bought apples and I never really completely understood what she meant until in 2010 we started to buy our apples from a small, very old orchard in Melbourne