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Jock Zonfrillo’s publisher says it is standing by the accuracy of his memoir, Last Shot.

Publisher adamant chef Jock Zonfrillo’s memoir stands up to scrutiny

Simon & Schuster says it stands by the book after a feature in Good Weekend on Saturday cast doubt on parts of the celebrity chef’s life story.

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“There’s a saying, ‘Why join the navy when you can be a pirate,’ ” Zonfrillo says. “It’s like, ‘You don’t need to confine yourself to rigid rules or anything.’ ”

‘He’s very nice. The only problem is ...’: chef Marco Pierre White on Jock Zonfrillo

“Hot Scot’“and celebrated chef Jock Zonfrillo has a fascinating, drug-fuelled backstory to rival that of Anthony Bourdain. But not all the subjects in his new memoir share his memories.

  • Tim Elliott
“Jock is passionate about native food,” says filmmaker Paul Ryan. “He has a genuine quality and strong relationships with people up there.”

‘A classic self-mythologiser’: the larger-than-life story of Jock Zonfrillo

Celebrity chefs, Indigenous ingredients and the fallibility of human memory.

Nigella Lawson: a sell-out in Australia, even at $111 a pop.

Why people are paying up to $200 to see a chef talk but not cook

They used to slave over hot stoves in anonymity but these days chefs are increasingly taking centre stage – literally. How did this come to pass?

  • Karl Quinn

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