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.

Clint Steindl is the inaugural captain of Tasmania's championship-winning NBL team, the JackJumpers. Having led the team to three consecutive play-off appearances and a 2024 National Basketball League championship victory, he announced his retirement from professional basketball in early 2025.

In this chat with hosts Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Clint describes the journey of the "Jackies" from start-up team to state-wide fanaticism, the differences he's noticed between sporting communities here and those that he's been a part of all over the world, and why he and his family have chosen to stay in Tassie beyond his retirement.

Kitana Mansell is a proud Palawa woman, and the Business Development Manager at Palawa Kipli, a Tasmanian Aboriginal food business that shares bush tucker from the oldest living culture in the world.

In this chat with hosts Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Kitana describes her experience of growing up in Lutruwita/Tasmania, her people's ongoing fight for justice, and how food - including muttonbird! - might just be the ultimate vehicle for sharing important stories of Country, history and culture.

With a kitchen pedigree that includes Tetsuya's in Sydney and Copenhagen's Noma, chef, photographer and environmental advocate Luke Burgess opened Garagistes in Nipaluna/Hobart in 2010. The restaurant gained quick public and industry acclaim, going on to place 17th in Gourmet Traveller's Top 100 Restaurants in Australia list, and being largely credited to this day with putting Tassie on the map for fine dining.

On the eve of the opening of his new restaurant - Scholé - Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis pinned Luke down for a chat about his hopes for a more sustainable future Tasmania, the best and worst things about life down here, and just how much the culinary scene has changed in his 15 years at the bottom of the world.

Anna Reynolds has been the Lord Mayor of Hobart since 2018 - only the third woman to hold the position. Prior to her life in Tassie, she lived and worked around Australia and internationally in public policy and advocacy, including as International Advisor to Senator Bob Brown, and CEO of the Multicultural Council of Tasmania.

In this chat with Emma Azon-Jacometti and Amanda Vallis, Anna tells us about her less-than-traditional journey into politics, and her vision for the future of Hobart.