Rodney Dunn and Séverine Demanet are the co-founders of Gourmet Traveller's 2024 Restaurant of the Year, The Agrarian Kitchen. After opening a cooking school and farm within their home in the Old Schoolhouse in Lachlan, south-east Tasmania, they and their team have gone on to grow The Agrarian Kitchen into its current offering: a restaurant, cooking school, kiosk, and one-acre kitchen garden, based out of New Norfolk’s old mental asylum, Willow Court.

In this chat with hosts Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Rod and Sev describe the dream that brought them from Sydney to Lutruwita/Tasmania, those early days of bringing it to life in their own family home, and why there's no place like Tassie for an experience like the one they've created at The Agrarian Kitchen.

Robbie Arnott's first novel - published in 2018 - was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and nominated for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for fiction. Since then, the Launceston-born fiction author has gone on to garner a slew of other awards, including but not limited to The Age Book of the Year, the Voss Literary Prize, the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction, and more long and shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award.

In this chat with hosts Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Robbie details the significance of the Tasmanian landscape both for his creative process and as a character in his books, how he comes back to himself after the come-down of a finished novel, and why awards aren't everything.

Kirsten Galliott is an accomplished journalist, editor and media leader, with a career spanning top publications, including the Sydney Magazine, Sunday Life and InStyle Magazine. These days, she is Head of Content for Travel & Business at Medium Rare Content, a Sydney-based content agency that produces a number of high profile titles, including Qantas Magazine.

In this chat with hosts Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Kirsten tells us about how she ended up at the bottom of the world while still managing a heavy-hitting Sydney-based career, and why Tassie's lifestyle, enviroment and hidden places provide the ultimate antidote to the big smoke.