Biography
Pete’s passions include fresh food, surfing, fishing – and cooking and living with a fantastically feel-good healthy focus.
Restaurants have been a part of Pete’s life since the age of 19. He has opened seven in his time as a chef and restaurateur, including The Pantry, Hugo’s Manly and, his latest success, a contemporary tapas bar in Melbourne’s CBD, the unique Bar Nacional.
High-profile catering is another proud passion – from a royal banquet for the Prince and Princess of Denmark to a private dinner for Martha Stewart or a gala G’Day USA dinner for 600 in New York City, Pete loves making any event super special.
Cooking, food and lifestyle TV programs have been another of Pete’s highly successful pursuits. Starting out in 2001 as a co-presenter on the Lifestyle Channel’s Home show, his credits also include Postcards from Home, FISH, and co-host with Manu Feildel since 2009 of Channel 7’s hugely and internationally successful My Kitchen Rules. Pete’s latest TV series, Moveable Feast, showcases America’s finest artisans, producers and chefs and is currently screening in the US.
Cookbooks? Of course! Pete has published seven of them, all internationally successful, and there’s an eighth on the way.
Magazines are also keen to feature Pete’s recipes and ideas. He contributes to many publications, including producing regular columns for Fine Cooking, Home Beautiful and New Idea magazines.
Speaking about healthy eating and wellness is another passion of Pete’s. One of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking and lifestyle, he loves to share his knowledge and educate and motivate parents, children and corporate audiences. And they love him!
Supporting organisations in synch with his own values is another of Pete’s passions. He is involved with Regenesis Youth (a new organisation dedicated to empowering disengaged teenagers) and the Mindd Foundation (using integrative healthcare, including food as medicine, in the treatment of metabolic, immunologic, neurologic, digestive and developmental conditions that often affect the mind). Pete is also an ambassador of the Australian Organic Schools garden project.
Brand ambassadorship: Clark Sinks, Rawson Homes, Jacobs Creek and Sumo Salad.
Pete’s products include his own-designed Baccarat cookware and co-ownership of 100% natural RAW Coconut water. Culture for Life, a home fermentation and culturing kit to make real sauerkraut, kimchi and kefir, is his newest product.
current adventures and new ventures
As one of Australia’s leading chefs and food personalities with amazing international experience and credentials, Pete is in the perfect position to promote his latest passion – fresh, healthy, organic
food, always cooked and eaten with good nutrition and optimum wellness in mind.
Now a health coach with qualifications gained from New York’s internationally recognised Institute of Integrative Nutrition, there’s no stopping Pete on his mission to revolutionise the way we eat and live through his exciting new brand: pete evans – healthy everyday.
As well as supporting the fabulous organic health and wellness store B.U Organics (be YOU – not anyone else) in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, where the team is spreading the good nutrition news through monthly healthy cooking classes, Pete has big plans to make the pete evans – healthy everyday brand a healthy part of every Australian’s day, every day!
