Australian chef and long time friend to Jamie Oliver, Tobie Puttock has been running Oliver’s Melbourne Fifteen branch since it opened in 2006.

Alongside that he keeps busy as a popular contributor to Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube, a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers. He also travels around Australia presenting cooking demonstrations and is working on a new range of ready-to-eat meals.

Puttock is also the author of Italian Local, Daily Italian and Cook Like An Italian. But his latest cookbook The Chef Gets Healthy is co-authored by his wife Georgia, and features easy, fuss-free, and most importantly healthy recipes.

Who is your inspiration?
Anyone thats creative and happy

What’s currently in your pantry?
About 300 things: oils, salts, spices, grains, and so on

What’s in your fridge?
Homemade bacon, milk, and lots of herbs fruits and vegetables

Best thing to come out of the microwave
Sterilised baby bottles

What did you last eat?
A smoked salmon and dill omelette about ten minutes ago

Where do you like to go for a feed?
Anywhere serving simple and well prepared food.

When I’m not cooking, I’m…
Writing about cooking as I am now, hanging out with my family, or dreaming of snowboarding

Butter, margarine, a mix or neither?
Only butter

Tools I can’t live without
iPhone, knife, spatula, KitchenAid, and a digital probe

Cookbooks I always return to…
The River Cafe cookbooks