MasterChef fans were left fuming during Monday night’s episode, after the popular cooking contest chose a Scottish-born chef to lead a challenge where native Australian ingredients were the focus.
WATCH Scottish chef Jock Zonfrillo lead MasterChef Indigenous good challenge:
Restauranteur Jock Zonfrillo – who is the owner of Adelaide restaurant Orana and the creator of The Orana Foundation – was introduced to the contestants by judge Matt Preston.
The Orana Foundation aims to ‘preserve the food heritage of Indigenous peoples and integrate native food into Australian gastronomy’.
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However, many viewers expressed fury over the fact that an Indigenous chef wasn’t chosen to lead the task.
I would have loved to see an actual Indigenous chef like Clayton Donovan or Mark Olive come in to teach the contestants about Indigenous foods rather than the white guy they brought who they later called Australia's best representative of Indigenous ingrediants. #Masterchefau pic.twitter.com/zMFQahA9n6
— عنبرین (@sarahwclkers) June 25, 2019
Because, it’s not like there isn’t an extremely prominent First Nations writer/historian that has been talking about Aboriginal food innovation lately, is there #MasterChefAU #BrucePascoe So yeah, lets get the Scottish bloke who’s “visited communities” on instead, eh?
— m/v (@myrtleviolet) June 24, 2019
Surely there's an Indigenous chef to guest star on indigenous food night on #MasterChefAU
— SMTD (@SMTD66) June 24, 2019
All of Indigenous Australia hearing George tell a European dude that he put Indigenous ingredients on the map. #MasterChefAU pic.twitter.com/jGTlRZmwwx
— JP (@JP75766129) June 24, 2019
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Nadia is a writer for WHO.com.au
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