The Stranded Chef is a culinary adventure through time and place, a coffee table cookbook, a life journey, a collection of short stories, photography and recipes from all around the world. 380 pages to delight your senses. Be inspired and join me on my journey.

Dive deeply into this feast of fine food, photographs and folk tales by The Stranded Chef living in one the most remote communities in the world—World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island—where he forages for mushrooms and free-dives for crayfish.

Stand in a vegetable garden with frost between your toes. Feel stranded, water up to your knees, in the engine room of a sinking super yacht. Breathe in the scenes of a slow boat down the Mekong River. Live on the edge near Everest.

  • “An inspiring, thoughtful and beautifully written cookbook... an ode to the importance of local produce and the strong ties between family, nostalgia and damn good food”

    Lizzie Tomlinson

    Verified buyer

  • “The Stranded Chef is an invitation to savour not only recipes but a mosaic of stories, revealing the magic of an island that forever enriches both cuisine and spirit”

    Women’s Weekly Magazine

  • “Easy to gift with approachable recipes to elevate all levels. Stunning photography and travel highlights across three continents”

    Jude Ng

    Verified buyer

  • “A beautifully curated life journey of chef, Dennis Tierney, weaving together the passion of good food, travel, photography and family”

    Fleur - Owner of Island collective, Yamba NSW

    Stockist

  • “Full of fantastic recipes intertwined with beautiful stories of an amazing life... recipes so good you’ll want to use them over and over”

    Mark McPherson

    Verified buyer

  • "Dennis has poured his heart and soul into Lord Howe Island, and now into this sumptuous new book, that so encapsulates everything he loves about this special place and the people and produce that make it so."

    Alice Zaslavsky

    ABC presenter

    Author of cook book “Better Cooking” & “In Praise of Veg”.

The Food

The Island

The Travel

The Beginning

Cook. Travel. Dream.

Come, join the adventure.

Contact us.

dennistierney@strandedchef.com

The Stranded Chef

Lord Howe Island N.S.W Australia 2898