Matthew Evans
Birthday: Born in in New South Wales, Australia
Deathday: Alive
Born in 1966, Matthew Evans once trained as a chef and worked as a high-profile restaurant critic, then threw it all away to become a smallholder in Tasmania’s peaceful and picturesque Huon Valley. Matthew is the presenter of the popular Gourmet Farmer series on SBS, which is in its sixth season, and a spin-off series, Gourmet Farmer Afloat, filmed from the deck of a 40-foot yacht circumnavigating Tasmania. He is also the presenter of two documentaries, What’s the Catch, an eye-opening documentary into the truth behind Australia’s seafood, and For the Love of Meat, focusing on Australia’s meat industry. Matthew is the author of a dozen books on food, including the authoritative Real Food Companion. In 2019 Matthew released his ethical meat manifesto, On Eating Meat, as well as a new cookbook The Commons, which explores the real-life joys of farm life over the seasons. When he’s not milking, writing, cooking, agitating or farming, Matthew is going to teach his son to fish.
TV Credits
Q&A
Character: Self - Panellist
Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions....
Gourmet Farmer
Character: Himself
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation that chefs don’t have the best produce in the land, normal people who live close to the land do. So he moved to Tasmania, to a small patch of earth, where he’s raising pigs and sheep, milking a cow and waiting for his chickens to start laying....