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Podcast: Conversation with a chef
Episode: #144 Jackson Mehlhopt | Tussock Hill Cellar Door and Winery
Description: Jackson Mehlhopt is head chef at Christchurch’s Tussock Hill Cellar Door and Winery and this year he was a regional finalist in the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition. The Competition is a global annual event to support young chefs and their personal vision for the world of food, demonstrating how food can have a positive impact on society at large. Ten chefs under 30 each cooked one dish for the Pacific region competition. Jackson’s dish, “The Southern Kiwi Deer and Its Surroundings,” was also awarded the Acqua Panna Award for Connection in Gastronomy, and clearly impressed the judges by his u...