Jared
Ingersoll

Speaker Profile

Jared started café and cocktail bar Danks Street Depot in Waterloo, Sydney, with his wife Melanie Starr in February 2002.

At the end of last 2009, Danks Street Depot also opened at the Sydney International Airport and a new restaurant, Cotton Duck, is scheduled for opening in August 2010. Prior to Danks Street Depot, Jared was head chef at Bayswater Brasserie after working in London at SoHo's Mezzo and Michelin two star The Square and Hillaire in South Kensington.

Out of the kitchen, Jared makes numerous media appearances. He has, amongst other things, been a regular on Network 10's Ready Steady Cook and The Morning Show and writes a monthly column for Home Beautiful Magazine. He is brand ambassador for iconic whitegoods label Bosch and has represented Horticulture Australia and Slow Food Australia at Terra Madre.

He is in demand internationally as a guest chef having spent two weeks at the prestigious restaurant SEVVA in Hong Kong at the end of 2008 and hosting a number of private celebrity dinner parties (including one for Joan Rivers).

A published author, both of his cookbooks have been extremely well received. Danks Street Depot was published in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award for the best hard cover cookbook under US$30. Sharing Plates was published in 2007 and was awarded best book under AU$36 at the Australian Food Media Awards in 2008. More books are in the pipeline.

He is in demand as a guest speaker, having spoken at corporate events such as for organisations including Ashe Morgan and Winthrop and the NSW Farmer's Association.

Jared works hard to celebrate the efforts of small scale and local producers by presenting food and drink across all of his enterprises with passion and integrity. He is committed to ethical and sustainable food principles working with the Nature Conservation Council on their sustainable seafood projects and launching The Green Peace GM Free Chefs Charter at DSD in 2008.

Dank Street Depot has numerous and consistently good reviews and articles including a mention in Vogue Living as a must-see destination when visiting New South Wales.

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