There are aisles dedicated to Mexican, Indian and Asian foodstuffs, but not Australian. Indigenous chef Matt Moncrieff wants to know why.
Straight off the back of his television cooking debut, Matt Moncrieff is using his fifteen minutes of fame to urge big supermarkets to stock more native Australian ingredients and herbs., alongside best friend Kaitlin ‘KT’ Pisani. The Yamatji man, 36, said he was motivated to participate in the TV show to raise awareness about native Australian ingredients.
“I’d never even watched the show before. I saw it as a platform to showcase our native foods,” he said. “I want to walk into a supermarket and buy the food I grew up eating but that’s just not possible,” he said. Matt and Kaitlin were the first pair in the long-running series to showcase native Australian ingredients.“There are aisles in our supermarkets dedicated to international foods like Asian, Mexican and Italian, but they don’t stock our incredible native ingredients when they’re literally growing on our doorstep.
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