cooking for photography, film,
and the family
Melbourne born and Rome based, I am a self taught cook, food educator and activist. For many years I worked with local and international photographers to create food imagery for books, magazines and commercial projects. After opening the first latteria studio with photographer Marie Sjoberg and stylist Emanuela Rota, I started teaching and collaborated with Carla Tomasi and Rachel Roddy in our much loved Market to Table classes.
More recently, I have turned my energies to the social space, teaching with Slow Food Roma, leading the international co-hort of migrant cooks at Multi Roma, and cooking up a storm with other activists and volunteer cooks at events with grassroots associations Recup, Nonna Roma, Spintime and Slow Food Roma.
latteria studio was much loved as working kitchen studio, home for my ceramics collection, as well as a space where curious cooks from around the globe could gather. I worked alongside so many inspiring people like Vanessa Miles, Femke Maas, Alia Askenasy, Dilruba Bashirova, Gaia Lochetti, Emiko Davies, Saghar Setareh and more. In btween it all I wrote occasional written food and travel pieces for Olive magazine, De Smaak Van Italie e Great Ocean Quarterly, and in 2020 was named one of the 50 Women in Food by Corriere della Sera.
