The Team
Thomas Carr
At only 34 years of age, Tom has travelled the world, enjoyed a fulfilling career as a health practitioner and worked on some of Australia’s most prominent news and lifestyle programs.
Following a decade long career as a podiatric clinician, Tom kick-started his media career as on-air talent for Network 7’s juggernaut reality TV series My Kitchen Rules, before later joining the team behind International travel series Places We Go.
With a journalism degree to his name, Thomas has worked as a producer for one of Australia’s highest rated News platforms, The Project and as an on-air reporter for the country’s largest independently owned regional network, WIN.
Russell Bridger
Russell has 41 years experience as a trusted cameraman in Australia. Twenty of those years were spent as a network cameraman, the other twenty as a freelancer. Throughout that time Russell has covered the war in Rwanda, the 2005 Tsunami in Sri Lanka as well as countless travel and lifestyle programs; most recently as the principal cameraman for International travel series Places We Go that airs globally on Nat Geo and domestically on Ten.
Meridith Stevens
Provedore owner, Meridith Stevens, ran a successful event management business for more than 15 years before opening Rose Street Pantry (a small provedore in Melbourne’s inner north). Her passion for real food comes from her upbringing and the realisation that much of the food we purchase has gradually been ruined by mass production, preservatives and the addition of fillers.
As a mother Meridith decided that she wanted to feed her family wholesome, fresh, real food that provided optimal nutrition and tangible health benefits. This led her on a journey to source local fresh produce that is full of flavour and to makers of small batch products that are passionate about quality and flavor. Over the last four years Meridith has developed relationships within the food industry and has become a trusted source of information for both consumers and producers.