200 Kitchens: Confessions of a Nomad Cook - Paperback

Barker, Gawain: - "After a South Pacific childhood, Gawain Barker spent the next three decades cooking up a storm in a huge variety of restaurants, private homes, cooking shows, music festivals and resorts. From TV chefs like Rick Stein and Ainsley Harriott, through to techno ravers and bare-foot hippies, he's worked with the biggest cast of kitchen characters imaginable. His culinary autobiography - 200 Kitchens: Confessions of a Nomad Cook - tells this unique story. For more cooking tales and ruminations on food, enjoy the blog - https: //200kitchens.wixsite.com/200kitchensNow retired from the kitchen and writing full-time, Gawain has the first in a trilogy of crime thrillers out - The Colour of Shadows. Set in the tropics of Australia's wild north, this series takes the noir/private-eye template as a starting point to explore the rough-as-guts social mores, endemic political and police corruption, and absolute personal freedoms of an often wild and lawless era - Far North Queensland of the 1970s & 1980s.Through decades of personal experience in Far North Australia, much research, and many interviews with colourful identities, he is recreating an untold world, filled with epic natural beauty and some very dangerous people. For more on the book - https: //www.thecolourofshadows.com/"