CELEBRITY INTERVIEW


a homestead and ate incredible food. Bangkok is up there on my list of the greatest places on earth. Street food is the inspiration of all great restaurants and Bangkok is the street food capital of the world. India’s also really special. I love Mumbai but Amritsar is a town that very few tourists will ever visit – and they should. The Golden Temple is one of the most inspiring places on earth.


Q. Have your travels inspired your cooking?


I was unable to eat dairy as a kid, which was hard in the 1970s and ‘80s, when pavlovas had cream on, ice cream was [served] with everything and milk was in lots of stuff. Then I went to Bangkok and ate some street food and I had no worries because there was no dairy in it. I discovered this new world of flavours and textures and thought, ‘This is it. This is what I was meant to be doing.’ I’ve trained classically, but Asian food has a really special place in my heart.


Q. How important is a country’s culinary offering when you’re choosing your holiday destinations?


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When I travel, the first thing I’ll do is go to a market. That’s one of the things that really surprised me about going to the Kimberley – it’s the first time I’ve been away and been so distracted by everything else that I haven’t even considered food. I love it for that.


Q. What kind of holidaymaker are you – do you love to explore and get off the beaten track or do you travel purely to relax?


I’m going away to Majorca soon and I’m going to sit on a day bed, read books in the sunshine and maybe go for a walk – but not do much at all. We all deserve a bit of downtime. I like to be comfortable, I’m definitely not someone who likes to backpack. Besides that, I don’t really mind – if it’s going to be cold, let it be cold; if it’s going to be hot, let it be hot.


Q. Where in the world remains on your bucket list?


Loads of places! Japan, Cambodia, Canada, Alaska and Antarctica. I’d love to do the Trans-Siberian Express and go all the way across the top of Russia and drop down into China. I’d like to ride a horse across Australia because


Australians go everywhere else, but we don’t visit our own country and it’s still quite undiscovered. There’s plenty to see in the world.


Q. Which three items do you always travel with?


My Globe-Trotter suitcase – it’s been everywhere with me. I always travel with my portable yoga mat and my iPad, which has my Yoga Studio app on it. I try to do yoga as much as I can when I travel – it’s a really good way to start and end the day. It’s also a nice way to concentrate your mind to see the world. And I always take a journal with me.


Q. What has travel taught you?


Regardless of what sort of reputation an area may have, there’s always places to discover. You’ve got to come off that beaten track, go for a drive, turn down an alley, get lost, go to a strange little beach or down a dirt track. That’s how you see a lot more of the world.


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