What happens when two culinary heavyweights join forces?
by Alexandra Carlton · Australian Financial ReviewAlexandra Carlton
Jul 29, 2026 – 5.00am
It’s 2pm, exactly 3½ hours before the first guests are due to arrive for a once-in-a-lifetime dinner, and chefs Josh Niland and Wylie Dufresne have plonked what they hope is a finished dish on a table near a window so they can see it in the clearest possible light.
Niland, world-renowned Australian fish pioneer, squints as he snaps a photo on his iPhone. Dufresne, American master of molecular gastronomy, leans forward and examines it from beneath the blue baseball cap that rarely leaves his head.
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