Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent

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Zach Green (The Storyteller Chef) - What is Australian food?
2026-07-14 | 35 min.
Zach Green is The Storyteller Chef, a First Nations chef and mental health advocate based on Larrakia Country in Darwin. He’s part of Fire & Forage, which offers indigenous food experiences in the Top End.

People often ask, “What is Australian food?” Surely, local ingredients and indigenous foodways are a large part of the answer.

storytellerchef.com.au

fireforage.com.au
Rhonda Andrews (Barrington Centre) - The Power of Connection in Hospitality
2026-07-12 | 39 min.
Poor working environments aren’t just a bummer, they are illegal. Every Australian jurisdiction requires employers to explicitly identify, assess, and control hazards that could harm someone’s mental health.

Rhonda Andrews is a psychologist and the CEO of Barrington Centre, a specialist team of psychologists and consultants. We talk workplace culture, burn-out and why chefs are as important as brain surgeons.

Our last chat in 2022:

https://deepintheweeds.com.au/podcast/rhonda-andrews-barrington-centre-a-multifaceted-approach/

https://www.barringtoncentre.com/
Shannon Martinez (Smith & Daughters, Smith & Deli) - doubling down
2026-07-08 | 36 min.
She was on the verge of packing in her plant-based businesses and moving to Spain but Shannon Martinez (Smith & Daughters, Smith & Deli) has doubled down on her vegan food brands with new investor Kelly Jarrett. Why don’t the old models work in hospitality anymore? What has Shannon learnt from a finance person about the food business? And what’s happened to vegan eating in an age of meat-maxxing?

https://www.instagram.com/shannon_martinez/?hl=en

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Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it’s owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.

Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.
Dave Pynt (Burnt Ends, Singapore) - Big, juicy chat!
2026-07-05 | 45 min.
There’s no bad time to catch up with Dave Pynt, chef and owner of fire-driven Michelin-starred Burnt Ends in Singapore. However, this seems like an especially good time to talk Michelin stars and New Zealand & South Australia, kitchen culture in Singapore, whether staging (working for free in restaurants) is a good thing, especially in light of Dave’s topical experience at NOMA in Copenhagen.

https://burntends.com.sg

We also mention Will Goldfarb - here’s my chat with Will from 2021, when Dirty Linen was just a baby!

https://deepintheweeds.com.au/podcast/will-goldfarb-room-4-dessert-bali-creativity-humility-art-and-dessert/

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Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it’s owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.

Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.
Postcard from Vietnam - dawn at the Hanoi wholesale market.
2026-07-03 | 11 min.
Dirty Linen is in Vietnam!

We get up at 4am for a dawn tour of Long Bien wholesale market (and more) with local chef Duyen Phan. Along the way Duyen told me some of her own story. She left her village as a young teen and ended up working for vendors at this market for two years, before a chance encounter with an English woman inspired her to learn English herself and build a different kind of life.

I was introduced to her by Tracey Lister, a Melbourne chef and teacher who spent a long time in Hanoi, and was a key member of the KOTO restaurant and training social enterprise, which still changes lives in Hanoi.

Thanks Tracey & thanks Duyen!

https://www.instagram.com/duyenphanchef/

https://www.instagram.com/lister.tracey/

https://www.koto.com.au/

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Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it’s owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.

Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

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Om Dirty Linen - A Food Podcast with Dani Valent

Dirty Linen goes behind the scenes in restaurants, cafes and bars, covering issues the hospitality industry finds hard to share in public - it's all up for grabs and everything is on the table. Your host is food journalist Dani Valent. For 20 years, Dani has been writing about restaurants and the people who give them life. But she's an outsider, a critic, a tourist, a fan. Despite hearing the stories and writing the tales, she's never really understood what happens behind the scenes. Now it's time to get stuck in, with compassion, humour and fearlessness. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in pressing topics. We ask the hard questions and discuss the big issues, bringing a unique perspective to a world that we all intersect with but often don’t understand. Dirty Linen is a Deep in the Weeds Production.

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