Nature. Exercise. They're the key ingredients for staying upbeat in lockdown for chef Elijah Holland of South Melbourne's Lume. We talk about wild food in China, foraging for Noma and the importance of staying healthy during the uncertainty of lockdown. If you're not energised after this chat, I'll be surprised!

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We start the week in Shepparton which is throwing all its resources at a Delta outbreak. Graeme Murphy's Thai Orchid was an exposure site last year. This year he's using everything he learnt to keep building community, stay safe and feed a struggling Shepp.

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We head to Canberra to talk to magazine editor Katarina Kroslakova, who is powering along with new print publication T Australia - food is a big focus there. Katarina is also helping her restaurateur partner Pasquale Trimboli with marketing, packaging and pandemic pivoting at his Canberra restaurant Italian & Sons. We talk food media, the resilience of print publications and the place of anonymity in restaurant criticism these days.

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We talk to Dom Wilton, owner of Hector's Deli, a Richmond sandwich place that is so popular they are completely (temporarily) changing the menu to stop people gathering outside the shop. We talk about the overlaps between fine dining and accessible food like toasties and burgers and why Dom thinks this is a great time to be optimistic and charged up about Australian dining.

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We're going to Ireland! JP McMahon owns three restaurants in Galway - one of them Michelin-starred Aniar - and runs culinary talkfest Food on the Edge. We talk about how reopening is going in Ireland, vaccine passports for indoor dining and what it might mean to create an indigenous Irish cuisine.

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Esca Khoo has just started his first head chef job at Melbourne's Miss Mi but it's hard to build momentum in lockdown. We talk about growing up in Borneo, the joys of fermented durian, his initial ambition to be a soccer player (hello Gordon Ramsay!) and work stints at Noma Australia and Dinner by Heston. Esca's career to date has been as much about working out what kind of leader he doesn't want to be as finding his identity as a person and a chef along the way.

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Debra Allard is a cheesemaker near Byron Bay, making small-batch cheese from her own Jersey cows' milk. Her Cheeses Loves You business went gangbusters at the start of the pandemic when imports slowed down but there have been tricky periods since then. We get mad about anti-maskers who jeopardise the farmers' markets that are her main source of income, ponder closed borders, and rhapsodise about cheese glorious cheese!

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Chris Lerch is co-owner of Lagoon Dining in Carlton, a modern Asian restaurant which opened in late 2019. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic, Lagoon has developed a strong Melbourne following and a considered identity, adapting pillars of fine dining for a more casual experience.

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As Melbourne digests news of Lockdown 6 Extension 2, we chat to experienced hospitality consultant and restaurateur Duncan Fraser-Smith. Duncan planned Vesper in South Yarra while he was in hotel quarantine back in lockdown #1 after wrapping up a long period living in Dubai. Despite the uncertainty and frustration of opening and closing over and again, he's managing to stay upbeat, connected, strategic and hopeful. This WILL end one day...

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We start the week with a trip to Europe to visit Aussie expat chef Lee Thompson. Lee's gastropub St Bart is in a cool part of Berlin - we talk about the highs, lows and other lows of the pandemic and the intricacies of understanding life and business in Germany. Bring on the bacon sandwich!

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