A young Italian chef will pour his heart, soul, and all of his accumulated cooking know-how into a three-course meal that he hopes will wow the judges and blow out the competition.
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On Thursday Liam Sibillin will be heading to the regional World Skills cookery competition in Albury, where the finest up-coming chefs will pit their culinary skills against one another in a MasterChef style tournament.
The competition will be fierce, but Mr Sibillin has spent weeks perfecting his carefully crafted line-up of dishes at Limone restaurant under the watchful eye of award-winning chef Luke Piccolo.
Mr Sibillin is a second year apprentice at Limone, and he says he's come a long way since he arrived in Australia two years ago with empty pockets and a head full of dreams.
"I moved here with nothing, and I didn't know anything about cooking when I came to Australia," Mr Sibillin said.
"In Italy I didn't know what I wanted to do. I wanted to change my life, change myself, start something serious."
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At the age of 20 he came to Griffith and eked out a living doing manual labour at a shearing shed, before moving on to work as a dishwasher at a restaurant.
He then started working as an apprentice chef at the leagues club, before getting his first big break at Limone Dining.
Since then he's worked non-stop to hone his culinary craft in the kitchen, and when he goes home he continues expanding his culinary knowledge through books and videos.
He's learnt a lot and come a long way in two short years, drawing upon reserves of effort he didn't know he had.
"I don't know whether I'm very focused, or if I was just desperate," Mr Sibillin said.
"Perhaps it's a bit of both."
He's hoping all that hard work and training will pay off when he heads to do culinary battle at the regional World Skills competition on Thursday.
Regardless of the outcome of the competition, Mr Sibillin said he'll continue honing his craft and working to become the best chef he can be.
"If you want to do something well you need to have focus and you need to have passion," Mr Sibillin said.
"At the end of the day I go to bed very tired, but I'm happy."
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Kenji Sato
Kenji Sato is a handsome journalist at The Daily Advertiser who enjoys writing flattering bios about himself in the third person. He can be contacted by email at kenji.sato@dailyadvertiser.com.au or by mobile on 0448 927 612.
Kenji Sato is a handsome journalist at The Daily Advertiser who enjoys writing flattering bios about himself in the third person. He can be contacted by email at kenji.sato@dailyadvertiser.com.au or by mobile on 0448 927 612.
