#WTF2050: Serving up some food for thought

April 21 2018 - 4:04pm
WTF2050: Jo Cook and Jess Robbins share their ideas of what Tasmania's future could be, as part of The Australia Institute Tasmania's campaign. Picture: Supplied
WTF2050: Jo Cook and Jess Robbins share their ideas of what Tasmania's future could be, as part of The Australia Institute Tasmania's campaign. Picture: Supplied

Jo Cook and Jess Robbins met while working in the Hobart restaurant trade 20 years ago. Ms Cook is curator of the Dark Mofo Winter Feast and Ms Robbins works for the Global Island Partnership. They were invited by The Australia Institute to propose a “big idea” for Tasmania’s future as part of its #WTF2050 – (What’s Tasmania’s Future?) initiative. 

JO COOK: I’ve been living in Tasmania 24 years now, I came down here in 1993 for a two-week holiday. We went straight to Coles Bay and my friends went diving and brought home abalone. I was 23 years old, I had never seen abalone. Then we went down south on a cray fishing boat. That was my first few days in Hobart. I just thought this place is amazing. I’m going to stay. After I had been here a while I took over a restaurant in Salamanca - it was two floors, we had a 24-hour license and that’s when Jess (Robbins) came along and started working in the kitchen with me, that was 20 years ago. 

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