With a background in primary school teaching, Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s passion for food led her to start her food blog, Ostro, in 2013, with a focus on sharing beautiful, yet uncomplicated food, with simple ingredients.

As her following started to grow, Julia caught the attention of a few publishers – and in 2017, her first book, entitled Ostro was released. Of all the beautiful cookbooks that are published in Australia each year, this book is truly something special. It’s received accolades both here and abroad, with Jamie Oliver calling it ‘A Truly brilliant first book!’.

Breaking news – Julia has just signed on to write her second book, which is very exciting, and she’s heading off to Italy soon to start researching.

I caught up with her recently to talk all about her rise to foodie fame, and she had so much wisdom to share!

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Enjoy!

Notes + Links

You’re going to want to follow Julia’s Instagram account, @juliaostro.

Julia first came on our radar and made her debut on The Design Files back in 2014. It all started with Julia’s Hummingbird Cake.

Julia and her husband chef Norihiko Nishimura were back later that year to show us some delicious Japanese recipes.

Read Julia’s blog Ostro here

What’s Julia’s favourite Melbourne restaurant? Embla.

D.O.C in Carlton is one of Julia’s favourite stores for Italian ingredients.

Find out more about her first book, Ostro, here

This was our 15th podcast (wow!!), you can listen to some more episodes here.