Perhaps nowhere is any true chef more at home than wandering through a fresh produce market with a bevy of media hanging off their every word and recipe. Especially when it’s in Rome.

Australia’s Neil Perry takes it all in his stride – clearly loving sharing his food enthusiasm with a captive audience of Australian and Italian journalists, all squished somewhere between boxes piled high with ripe summer plums and buckets of fresh basil in Rome’s Trionfale food market.