Chef Analiese Gregory to return to TV in A Girl’s Guide to Hunting, Fishing and Wild Cooking
Counting Gordon Ramsay among her fans, renowned chef Analiese Gregory will return to Australian television screens next year in a series documenting her life and work in Tasmania.
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Documenting her hunting and fishing adventures on Instagram, renowned chef Analiese Gregory quickly developed a loyal online following – including a group of television producers who pitched the idea of adapting her exploits for the small screen.
Considered one of the nation’s most talented young chefs, Gregory moved to Tasmania in 2016, after working for Michelin star restaurants Le Meurice in Paris and Quay in Sydney.
Moving to a century-old cottage in the Huon Valley, she had been running Franklin on the Hobart waterfront for three years and exploring the wilds of Tasmania in her spare time when SBS approached her to star in her own TV series.
“I was still working full-time as a chef … and these were all the things that I did on the weekend and in my spare time and I used to share them on my Instagram,” Gregory said.
“And I did not know, but I had a small fan base in a TV office somewhere that apparently, when they wanted time out from their day, would be like, ‘What is Analiese doing in Tasmania right now?’ And I’d be off deep sea fishing or going for an abalone dive.
“And they used to [look at] that as time out from their city jobs. That’s apparently where the idea for the show came from.”
A Girl’s Guide to Hunting, Fishing and Wild Cooking first aired in 2021 and is soon returning for a second season, set to hit screens next year.
The show gives viewers a glimpse of Gregory’s experience adapting to life in rural Tasmania, learning to hunt, fish, and forage, as well as live sustainably and craft magnificent dishes using local produce.
“I just really like sharing how I see and feel about Tasmania with other people and my journey that I went on to get here – the fear and things like that, and that there is a beyond after that and you can push through it,” she said.
The second season of Gregory’s show will follow her as she prepares to open a 10-seat restaurant in one of the sheds on her farm at Glen Huon.
Executive producer Navid Bahadori said the series had resonated with Australians during the pandemic because “a lot of people were looking for a tree change”.
“People were looking for a different kind of life and Analiese was a great example of someone who was trying to make it work for herself in a new environment coming out of a big city,” he said.
The new season of A Girl’s Guide to Hunting, Fishing and Wild Cooking is being supported by a $40,000 sponsorship from Tourism Tasmania and $160,000 in funding from Screen Tasmania.
Arts Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said the state’s screen sector was going “from strength to strength” and that Gregory’s series was “a feast for the eyes of locally sourced produce and iconic Tasmanian locations”.
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