Karen Martini

Chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author

"I was living the goth life. I still begrudge my parents for not letting me have a pet rat" - Karen Martini. ⁠

In this live episode recording of Three Food Memories thanks to our friends at Poliform Australia - sit down with chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Karen Martini (whose middle name is NOT Louise).

Share the memories as she tells all; her childhood dreams of wanting to be an embalmer, the drive and persistence that had her running her own restaurant before the age of twenty, and how if she had a tattoo it would be of a fennel bulb! 

On the menu is broad bean paste on crostini, fish soup taught to her by her Tunisian mémère, and cheesecake flavoured biscuit turnovers. 

Karen’s social cause is the Children’s Cancer Foundation whose research is key to uncovering better and kinder treatments for children with cancer.

She serves up pasta vongole to our next guest Ita Buttrose.