New food show Three Blue Ducks has Andy Allen returning to his roots
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Before Andy Allen joined
MasterChef he ran the popular and laid-back Sydney restaurant Three Blue Ducks. And before that, he insists, he was a knockabout lad who got into cooking, simply by growing up by the water and doing things with his family.
What was the genesis of the
Three Blue Ducks TV show?
The executive producer, Liam, grew up in Bronte with two of my business partners, and heâd followed the Ducksâ progress over the years. Heâd had this idea for a while, because we seem to be constantly changing our menus and keeping up with fashions in food. He wanted to explore that, so he pitched a concept to us and we loved it. Each episode is going out into the field, meeting a producer, and off the back of that doing a cook-up in the field, and then trying to reinvent that dish into something we can put on the menu, then putting that dish on our specials for a night and getting the puntersâ feedback on it.