- delectable ambassadors -

Find out more about our featured chefs, producers and growers, garden experts, musical talents and partners appearing at delectable over the 14 day festival of events.

  • Alastair McLeod

    Alastair McLeod | chef

    As a Queensland chef, I love having the opportunity to share my passion and knowledge about the wonderful fresh produce that we have available to us on our doorstep.

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  • Annette Fear

    Annette Fear | chef

    As a Queensland chef focused on modern Thai cuisine, I consider myself blessed with the vast array of locally grown, exotic Asian ingredients which inspire my recipes. I’m delighted to showcase and share the spicy flavours with all at delectable.

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  • Annette McFarlane

    Annette McFarlane | gardener

    Teacher, garden writer, author and broadcaster

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  • Ben O’Donoghue

    Ben O’Donoghue | chef

    Cooking never ceases to stimulate my imagination and Queensland offers up a world of ingredients to choose from. As a Brisbane-based chef, I am proud to share my love of great local and seasonal produce at delectable.

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  • Carl Wockner

    Carl Wockner | musician

    There are some things that can’t be put into words. Fleeting moments in time that send tingles down our spines; emotions felt deep in the recesses of our hearts and the exhilaration we experience when something resonates with our soul.

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  • Caroline Jones

    Caroline Jones | chef

    I am a country girl at heart. I know the importance and value of the farmer, the benefits of sourcing as locally as possible and as seasonally as possible. When I have some of the best produce at my door, why would I go elsewhere?

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  • Costa Georgiadis

    Costa Georgiadis | gardener

    Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people - he knows how to bring out the best in both of them, and takes great pleasure in bringing them together.

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  • Damian Heads

    Damian Heads | chef

    Using the ‘best natural ingredients to prepare great food’ is only possible with fabulous produce, which QLD supplies in abundance. With the best of the land at my disposal, this is a brilliant forum to share my enjoyment of cooking!

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  • Damien Pignolet

    Damien Pignolet | chef

    I am delighted to demonstrate my style of French cuisine using the splendid fresh produce found in Queensland, particularly those from the sea.

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  • David Hobson

    David Hobson | musician

    Australian tenor and composer David Hobson is one of Australia’s best known operatic and recording artists.

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  • David Pugh

    David Pugh | chef

    I feature Queensland’s delicious produce on almost every dish on my menu and the quality is second to none. This is a great opportunity both to showcase what they have to offer and help them back on their feet after last year’s floods.

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  • Guy Noble

    Guy Noble | musician

    David Hobson and Marina Prior are old friends - we’ve done so much over the years and to get to work with them again in my home away from home, Brisbane, will be a treat.

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  • James Blundell

    James Blundell | musician

    In late March 2012 James Blundell was announced as the inaugural inductee into the Country Music Channel (CMC) Hall of Fame by long time friend, one time band member and 2008 Australian of The Year Lee Kernaghan. The induction also included tributes from country stars Catherine Britt and Travis Collins whose renditions of classic Blundell songs further reinforced his influence on a generation of Australian performers.

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  • Javier Codina

    Javier Codina | chef

    A quality food, wine and music festival is greatly anticipated for Brisbane and I do believe it will benefit all of Queensland by embracing and showcasing our stunning produce.

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  • Jennifer Stackhouse

    Jennifer Stackhouse | horticulturalist

    Growing edible plants is a rewarding gardening activity which can get people of all ages and backgrounds involved in gardening.

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  • Jonathon Grealy

    Jonathon Grealy | horticulturalist

    Plant up is pleased to be able to create instant landscapes for delectable that provoke thought and conversation, delivering on sustainable landscape solutions through creativity and best possible environmental outcomes.

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  • Justin North

    Justin North | chef

    delectable is a great opportunity for me to meet with local producers and share our philosophy of the importance of supporting small local producers and encouraging chefs and general public to source sustainable local ingredients.

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  • Linda Brennan

    Linda Brennan | gardener

    I have a passion for good food grown and prepared locally. I also have an unquenchable thirst to share my lifetime of knowledge and experience to help you create your own bountiful garden.

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  • Luke Nguyen

    Luke Nguyen | chef

    Being involved in delectable Queensland gives me a great opportunity to use and showcase the amazing local produce that Queensland farmers have to offer to the rest of Australia.

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  • Marina Prior

    Marina Prior | musician

    Marina Prior is regarded as Australia’s leading lady of musical theatre.

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  • Matt Moran

    Matt Moran | chef

    I believe that seasonality is an important basis for menu production and one of the most significant ingredients in achieving a flavoursome, balanced and premium quality menu.

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  • Matthew Evans

    Matthew Evans | chef

    I’m very excited to be working with Queensland produce. With a climate that ranges from frost to the tropics, the scope and range of locally grown ingredients would make chefs from anywhere in the world green with envy.

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  • Miguel Maestre

    Miguel Maestre | chef

    It is an absolute pleasure to get to work again in one of my favourite parts of the world. I can’t wait to come and show off a little bit of Spanish flair using the unique and delicious produce of QLD.

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  • Myles Baldwin

    Myles Baldwin | gardener

    I’m loving the idea that this project is a chance to bring our rural soul into the city… to be displayed to the public as an energetic contemporary industry and way of life.

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  • Nick Holloway

    Nick Holloway | chef

    The 12 days of delectable will provide the perfect platform to communicate and showcase the entire state’s food production, its chefs and its restaurants to a broad audience in Queensland and nationally.

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  • Pablo Tordesillas

    Pablo Tordesillas | chef

    delectable is the perfect opportunity for Queensland’s premium produce and talent to shine.

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  • Paul Blain

    Paul Blain | chef

    I’m very excited to be part of Delectable, being able to showcase Queensland’s dedicated growers and producers array of wonderful produce along with prominent chefs highlighting the products to share what great regional produce we have at our door.

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  • Phil Dudman

    Phil Dudman | gardener

    You can’t get any better food than the stuff you grow yourself. It’s fresher, tastier and healthier. Queensland offers the perfect growing climate for a huge variety of produce that is easy to grow at home.

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  • Poh Ling Yeow

    Poh Ling Yeow | cook

    Having migrated from Malaysia as a child I was delighted with the natural affinity I had with the tropical ingredients of Queensland when I first visited a year ago.

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  • QSO

    QSO | musician

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra, under the guiding baton of Chief Conductor Johannes Fritzsch, is renowned for its high quality, breath-taking performances of both classical and modern compositions that engage audiences of all musical tastes, interests and ages.

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  • Seleen McAlister

    Seleen McAlister | musician

    The Queensland local might have been born in the big city but the Brisbane based artist proudly admits her heart remains in the country. She knows the country too, with a nomadic upbringing. As a young girl, Seleen moved around a lot calling Ayr in far north Queensland and many other country towns her home.

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  • Shinichi Maeda

    Shinichi Maeda | chef

    The quality and variety of Queensland’s produce is second-to-none, especially its amazing seafood, and it certainly makes my role much easier to work with such delicious food every day.

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  • Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation

    Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation |

    As someone who is passionate about fresh homegrown produce, I am delighted to support the aims of delectable. This is a marvellous opportunity to showcase the best seasonal food produced in Queensland.

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  • Tony Percuoco

    Tony Percuoco | chef

    Here in Queensland we produce and harvest at least seventy percent of food served to you. We are blessed with a warm sun, rich mineral soil and warm currents of the pacific ocean. It gives me great pleasure to showcase Queensland produce at it’s best

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  • Valli Little

    Valli Little | cook

    Queensland is the home of so much of the wonderful produce we use in delicious magazine, so we’re thrilled to be a part of the state’s first delectable festival.

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  • Victoria Carey

    Victoria Carey | personality

    I have been very inspired by the wonderful produce I have found while travelling through Australia’s regional centres and meeting our readers.

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