Never Tell Me I Can’t

Settling down in Western Australia, she realised her dream of raising her children on a farm. She learned traditional cheesemaking in France, adapted her know-how to Australian conditions and began a successful career, twice winning the best overall Australian cheese award. Kervella Cheese continues in Golden Bay, where Gabrielle and her partner, master cheesemaker Alan Cockman, handcraft their own unique cheese with cow’s milk from their neighbours’ regenerative farm.

Through all of Gabrielle’s stories runs a strong, bright thread of joie de vivre and determination to overcome challenges and make the most of life. Decades of immersion in a multitude of countries, languages and cultures gifted her with an expanded outlook, a knack for solving problems and the courage to make bold decisions, adapt and do things her own way.

“Gabrielle has roamed far and wide, always open to new pursuits and alternative ways of doing things….”

— STEPHANIE ALEXANDER, AUSTRALIAN CHEF, RESTAURATEUR AND FOOD WRITER

“ … an incredible story of a life well lived.”

— NEIL PERRY, AUSTRALIAN CHEF, RESTAURATEUR, AUTHOR AND TELEVISION PRESENTER