Caz grew up in the Sunny Queensland South East, she has lived Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and has travelled extensively across the globe, which she attributes to her early curiosity and later passion for the many cuisines she’s encountered.

Before starting Scenic Rim Cooking Classes Caz worked as Special Projects Manager for Brisbane City Council and previous to that was General Manager at Brisbane Powerhouse an Arts Precinct in New Farm, Brisbane.

Establishing a small hobby farm of 40 acres in 2008 in the beautiful Scenic Rim Caz expanded her culinary world and along with her husband Stephen established an olive grove, fruit orchard, vegetable gardens and a small herd of Dexter cattle. In her spare time, she owned and operated a local café and restaurant in Boonah 7days week for three years. She has owned and produce a range of products under the farm name, Kooroomba Gully. The range included pates, chutneys, sauces and relishes and was distributed through Scenic Rim Farm Box, nationally by food distributors and local Farmers Markets.

Recent times have seen Caz do private chef work for events and special one-off occasions. In 2019 Scenic Rim Cooking Classes started. Special, focuses on cooking and eating sustainably sourced foods from both land and sea. Caz has a keen interest in Australian Indigenous foods and how the play a part in sustaining us both culinary and our lands. Her passion is inspiring others to cook with creativity and showing people that healthy food can be delicious.

When not cooking, photographing, or talking about food, Caz enjoys spending time with her husband and two dogs and playing golf badly. She also has committed to getting back into the saddle of her two horses Molly and Bella in 2022.