Co-Founder and Executive Chef

Rodney worked under Tetsuya Wakuda at the Sydney restaurant Tetsuya’s before moving into food media, working as a food researcher for the Better Homes and Gardens television program and as food editor of Gourmet Traveller magazine from 2004-2007. In order to indulge his passion for growing fruit and vegetables, raising pigs, milking goats and keeping honey bees, Rodney and Séverine, moved to Tasmania to open The Agrarian Kitchen Cooking School in Lachlan, Derwent Valley in 2008. In 2010, it was voted as Australia’s “Greatest Gourmet Food Experience” by Australian Traveller Magazine.

In June 2017, Rodney and Séverine opened The Agrarian Kitchen restaurant in nearby New Norfolk’s Willow Court precinct. Just four months after opening, the restaurant was awarded two hats and voted Best Regional Restaurant in Australia by Fairfax in the National Good Food Guide. Rodney has authored two books with Penguin Random House Australia under its Lantern imprint, entitled The Agrarian Kitchen and The Truffle Cookbook.