Favourite chef? I don’t have a favourite chef. I’ll say George Colombaris so he might like me more.
Josh Thomas Q and A
Favourite cuisine?
Italian. It is so comfortable.
Favourite place to travel?
- New York. It is just the best. Everyone says it is the best and you don’t believe them, but it really is the best. And the food is really great, really, really great.
Favourite dish to cook?
My favourite at the moment is a 7 hour cooked leg of lamb with 24 cloves of garlic and white wine.
Favourite dessert to eat?
Banana Split!
Sweet or Savoury?
Sweet.
How do you like your eggs?
Poached, soft.
Favourite ingredient and why?
Vanilla pods. Mostly because they are just so excessively expensive, using one is such a treat. Scraping out the seeds of a vanilla pod is awesome, it smells great and you get these cool little black specks.
What dish would be the way to your heart?
Rhubarb and Custard. I hadn’t tried Rhubarb till like 2 years ago and it blew my mind. It is so rare to get to try a genuinely new flavour.
What’s your favourite tune to cook to?
"Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry. I do little poses and pretend I am in the opening titles of Masterchef.
What’s the first meal you remember cooking and was it a success or a disaster?
When I was super young my brother and I decided to make ginger-bread-men. We didn’t realize there was a difference between garlic and ginger so we made Garlic-bread-men.
Who do you cook for the most?
My friends. I live alone and all my friends are students so I cook big meals to encourage them to come over.
What three ingredients would you take with you to a desert island and what would you cook with them?
Coconuts, Rum and Pineapple so I can make Pina Coladas and get so smashed I forget I am going to die on a deserted island.
If you were having any three people, alive or dead, over for dinner, who would they be and what would you cook for them?
Ricky Gervais, Jon Stewart and George Bush. It’d be fun watching them interact. I would make the slow-roast lamb and do a citrus curd tart for dessert.
