With a culinary background shaped by time working under Tetsuya Wakuda at Sydney’s
Tetsuya’s, Rodney Dunn later moved into food media, becoming a food researcher for the
Better Homes and Gardens television programme and serving as food editor at Gourmet
Traveller from 2004.
In 2007, Rodney and his wife Séverine relocated to Tasmania to pursue a more hands-on,
produce-driven lifestyle, growing fruit and vegetables, raising pigs, milking goats, and
keeping honey bees. From their home in Lachlan, they founded The Agrarian Kitchen
Cooking School, which was named Australia’s Greatest Gourmet Food Experience by
Australian Traveller magazine in 2010.
In 2017, the couple opened The Agrarian Kitchen restaurant at the historic Willow Court
precinct in New Norfolk. Just four months after opening, it received two prestigious culinary
awards and was named Best Regional Restaurant in Australia by Fairfax in the National
Good Food Guide.
Rodney is also the author of two acclaimed books, The Agrarian Kitchen and The Truffle
Cookbook, published by Penguin Random House Australia.
