FOOD,Glorious FOOD
By Melissa Walsh
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teve Owens and his wife Michele are definitely not afraid of a challenge with the couple following their passion for food and travelling from the Mornington Peninsula across the Nullarbor to find fabulous food destinations. The journey, which began in Mornington at the beginning of this year, is part of the YouTube star’s online cooking show, Steve’s Kitchen. The online following is so big it reached more than 196,000 subscribers since they began just four years ago, with over 2 million regular viewers per video. “Our family lives on the peninsula so we spend a lot of time down here and were sitting at a local brewery when we came up with the idea of doing Steve’s Kitchen-Australian Food Odyssey, featuring artisan producers, growers and restaurateurs from throughout Australia,” said
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Steve. “We had travelled all over the world doing food demonstrations and presenting our cooking show but had not really explored Australia. We decided to kick it off on the peninsula as this is where it all began for us.” Steve and Michele have been lucky enough to experience food from around the globe and have met with locals, chefs and food lovers, after packing up and taking themselves off on a world foodie’s tour nearly three years ago. “The kids were all off doing their own thing and suddenly we had time on our hands so thought 'why not?' We travelled to Mexico, the US, then Sicily, France, and South East Asia,” said Steve, who then continued next page...