Small Screen Project

Waikato-born executive chef de cuisine, head of Gordon Ramsay’s North American operations and New Zealand’s first Michelin star winner Josh Emett, 36, will document his rise to culinary fame in a documentary called Chef De Cuisine Project. The three-part series will document the roots of Emett’s career, beginning at the Est Est Est restaurant in Melbourne. It will be filmed in New Zealand, the United States and Britain early next year, and will see Emett working with Queenstown-based producer Mark Gillings. The documentary will chronicle Emett’s early life, his rise to fame within the Ramsay empire and his feelings on returning home to see how much has changed since he’s been away. “This documentary is about getting back to cooking because that’s really what it’s supposed to be about. Cooking’s why we got into this in the first place,” Emett says.