Francesca Gonzales is many things. She’s a psychology student, musician, songwriter, vocalist, key-tar player and facilitator. She’s a staunch advocate for artists’ mental health and finds herself constantly thinking about how she can help artists figure out what’s best for themselves in an industry that leaves many people miserable and burnt out.

Francesca is obsessed with promoting and facilitating mental health for artists. She started out as a musician and really wanted to connect with people. As she pursued music, she found herself alone a lot of the time and it felt wrong. She soon found that many people were feeling the same way, so she created Breakfast Club meet-ups as a way to come together with her peers and foster an environment where artists could support each other and learn from each other.

You can sign up to Breakfast Club events via Fran's instagram https://www.instagram.com/francescagonzales___/

You can find Fran's Chicken Pilaf recipe on our website!

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Rochelle Siemienowicz grew up as a strict Seventh Day Adventist. Her first experiences of art (particularly writing) was the bible. In terms of food, she went through a renaissance in culinary life when she left the church and was in her early 20’s.

Her latest novel ‘Double Happiness’ is a love story loosely inspired by her own journey of polyamory.

“The journey of writing this latest book has been one of learning to set boundaries and learning to priortise my own need to create over other people’s needs” - she says.

Rochelle believes that food and art are both about nourishment of the body and the soul, sharing, expressing one's individuality, and sometimes for her: rebellion.

You can find Rochelle's Upside-Down Pear & Almond Flan recipe on our website!

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This is a recording of a live panel talk from North Gallery in Fitzroy presented by Food For Everyone.

It was during Gem Leslie's exhibition called 'Pantry Study', where she visited and painted multicultural pantries around Melbourne.

Our guests were Jaclyn Crupi - author of several books on food including PASTA LOVE and GARDEN LIKE A NONNO about her Italian pantry.

Kira Hosking - creative consultant and recipe writer about her Japanese pantry, and food programmer Adriana Bradica Watson about her Croatian pantry.

We talked about the migrant experience, living in multicultural Melbourne and the complexities of assimilation.

We also spoke about how cooking can connect us to our ancestry and where to find the best Japanese, Italian, Croatian and Hungarian food in Melbourne.

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