My Country Childhood
MATT MORAN
A chef and restaurateur, Matt grew up on farms in Tamworth and then Badgerys Creek, both in NSW, before the family moved to suburban Sydney. He found TV fame in the Foxtel show Paddock to Plate and as a judge on The Great Australian Bake Off.
“My first five years were spent on our farm in Tamworth. We were typical farmers; poor one year and wealthy the next, and eventually it didn’t work out in Tamworth, so we moved to a dairy farm at Badgerys Creek. That’s to the west of Sydney — back then it was completely rural — and we stayed there until I was about 10, when we
