Award winning Author, Chef, Food Stylist, Publisher & Photographer 

 

Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2025 for Seasoned with Lavender- special award from the jury.

Gourmand World Cookbook Award National Winner 2023 Best Entertaining for Celebrate and Best series for Packed 

Gourmand World Cookbook Award National Winner 2021 Best Mediterranean -Dun Gifford Award for The Tasmania Pantry 2 Cookbook 

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards National Winner 2018 awards: Best Local Cuisine Cookbook for The Tasmania Pantry Cookbook and Best Series for The Tasmania Pantry and Seafood Everyday

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards National Winner 2017: Best Woman Chef & Best Fish and Seafood Book for Seafood Everyday

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Third Place- Best Seafood or Fish Book 2017

Eloise Emmett is a trade-qualified chef with more than 30 years’ experience, a food stylist and photographer, cookbook author, and cooking teacher and owner and chef at Little Norfolk Bay Bistro and Chalets on the gorgeous Tasman Peninsula.

Food has always been at the heart of everything she does — cooking it, photographing it, teaching it, and writing about it. She runs Old School Kitchen, her teaching studio at the bistro where she holds workshops and classes with one straightforward aim: to help people realise how easy and satisfying it is to cook real food from scratch. It’s a mission that runs through everything she does — she’s genuinely frustrated by the state of our food system and the toll it takes on people’s health, physical and mental. The research is overwhelming. Home cooking really is one of the simplest, most impactful things any of us can do.

Eloise has published seven cookbooks and helped many others publish their own. Her restaurant The Mussel Boys, which she ran for seven years on the Tasman Peninsula, was described by food critic Graeme Phillips as one of the best country eateries in Tasmania, known for its inspirational menu and emphasis on fresh local produce. Other career highlights include a chef de partie position at Bedarra Island Resort, creating innovative daily menus for one of Australia’s most exclusive retreats, and head chef roles at The Astor Grill and T42 in Hobart.

She is also an experienced food stylist and photographer, holding a Diploma in Visual Arts (Photography). She has photographed and styled award-winning cookbooks, food and product advertising, and luxury accommodation — and she still loves nothing more than hunting for props at op shops and markets.

She lives in Tasmania with her husband Brendan, a fisherman, and their three children — Maggie, Stephanie, and Oscar. Conveniently, they are never short of fresh seafood.