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About Tobie Puttock
Jamie Oliver is set to launch another Fifteen-style restaurant-training concept for disadvantaged youth in Melbourne. His right-hand man in London for Fifteen over the past three years, ex pat Tobie Puttock, has come home to spearhead the project.
While in London, Tobie was Executive Chef at Fifteen. He was in charge of the training component of the project as well as the phenomenally successful restaurant, for the past three years.
The project and its first intake of unemployed and disadvantaged kids trying to learn the craft of professional cooking was the subject of an excellent television series.
Tobie started life in the kitchen after finishing school in 1992. He walked walking into Caffe e Cucina with a resume consisting of school reports (mostly bad) and asked to speak to the Head Chef.
A huge Italian guy walked out of the kitchen and asked him if he would be interested in taking on a food preparation role. He accepted the job thinking it was better than washing dishes. His culinary journey began the next morning at 6am with 30kg of fresh squid and a bag of onions.
After a couple of months Tobie was offered an apprenticeship and jumped at it. After about six years, he left Caffe e Cucina for the “motherland” Italy. He stayed in Italy for two years, working in Milan, Lake Como, and Ponte di Legno. Next he went to London where he worked in the prestigious River Café where he met a young chef called Jamie Oliver. Next he moved to the luxurious ski resort of St Moritz.
In 2000 he returned to Australia and opened Termini in St Kilda with an old friend from the Caffe e Cucina days and ran the kitchen for two years. Now back in Melbourne, he is focussing on trying to make a Fifteen happen in Australia.
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