Ben Shewry

Oct 9, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Ben Shewry

A weekly show about the books we love and the stories behind them. Hear the best writers from Australia and around the world talk about their lives and their work. How to listen? Michael sits down with Attica’s head chef to discuss his new memoir, Uses for Obsession. There are few people in this country as obsessed with understanding the cultural and social potential of Australian cuisine as New Zealand-born chef Ben Shewry.

Oct 2, 2024 | crikey.com.au | Ben Shewry

In 2018, at MAD, an influential symposium held in Copenhagen shaping the future of food and restaurants, an unusual thing happened. Of the 25 speakers, 14 were women. There were 11 men. I was one of them. To demonstrate how uncommon this is, at a previous symposium I spoke at, male speakers outnumbered female speakers, 20 to two. MAD was held during the height of the reemergence of #MeToo in 2018.