Ben Shewry
Ben Shewry (born 14 March 1977) is a New Zealand chef and owner of Attica restaurant in Melbourne . Shewry is a Melbourne, Australia-based chef who grew up on the North Island of New Zealand in the North Taranaki town of Waitara. His food is influenced by his childhood upbringing in the natural surroundings of North Taranaki. Shewry was one of six chefs featured in the inaugural season of the Netflix original documentary Chef's Table. In the documentary his life, struggles, and inspiration for cooking are detailed. His cooking philosophy is deeply rooted in using indigenous ingredients readily available, in both the Australian and New Zealand contexts. Shewry has expressed enthusiasm about his own inspiration by the indigenous Maori hangi (or earth oven feast ceremony), and other indigenous ingredients such as kumara (a version of a potato) and native mutton bird. The use of ingredients native to Australia in a top restaurant was a new idea that was not widely accepted ini
