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MasterChef Australia (series 10)
The tenth series of the Australian cooking game show ''MasterChef Australia'' premiered on 7 May 2018 on Network Ten. Judges Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston returned from the previous series, with Shannon Bennett Shannon Bennett (born 23 November 1975) is an Australian chef and author. He is best known as the head chef of restaurant Vue de Monde at Melbourne's Rialto Tower. Bennett currently serves as the creative director at the restaurant and its pare ... as the contestants' mentor. This series was won by Sashi Cheliah in the grand finale against Ben Borsht, on 31 July 2018. Changes This season introduced a change in the Mystery Box Challenge. The winner will be going straight into the Immunity Challenge, which means they will not be cooking in the invention test and will be safe from the Pressure Test on the following day. Week 10 featured the remaining contestants competing for a special "10-Year Superpower" apron, which works similar to an immunity p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Preston
Matt Preston (born 21 July 1961) is an English-Australian food critic, writer, food journalist, television and radio presenter. Preston has a weekly national food column that appears in NewsCorp's metro newspapers. He is also a senior editor for ''Delicious.'' and ''Taste'' magazines, and the author of at least four best-selling cookbooks. Previously he was host of ''Saturday Mornings'' on ABC Radio Melbourne, judge on Network Ten's ''MasterChef Australia'' between 2009 and 2019, Seven Network's ''My Kitchen Rules'' in 2022. Early life Preston is the son of British naval historian and journalist Antony Preston. He was born in London, UK, to a Roman Catholic family and from the age of 11 was educated at Worth School, a Benedictine monastic boarding school in West Sussex. He graduated from the University of Kent with a Bachelor of Arts, BA Hons in Politics and Government. While growing up in London in the late 1970s, he became a DJ and punk rock musician. Career After a fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Bracks
Katherine Jane Bracks (née Pickett; born 1974) is an Australian reality television cook. She is the winner of the third series of ''MasterChef Australia''. Bracks, mother of three children, was previously a school teacher. She lives in Orange, New South Wales and attends Orange Evangelical Church. While on the show, Bracks refused to call the Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama (, ; ) is the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shu ... " Your Holiness", saying that "My belief is that God is the only one that is perfectly holy." Her stance attracted media attention in India. Released a cook book in 2012: ''The Sweet Life: Desserts from Australia's MasterChef''. After two years, when she had fulfilled her contractual obligations, Bracks returned to her work as a teacher. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poh Ling Yeow
Poh Ling Yeow (; born 17 December 1973) is a Malaysian-born Australian cook, artist, actress, author and television presenter. She has hosted multiple cooking shows including ABC's ''Poh's Kitchen'' and SBS's ''Poh & Co''. She has also published multiple cook books. She was the runner-up on the first season of Network 10's ''Masterchef Australia'' behind winner Julie Goodwin. Since appearing on season 1, she has made multiple comebacks to the series as a guest judge/mentor, returning as a contestant on the twelfth season in 2020 then a judge since the sixteenth season in 2024. Early life and history Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, into a fifth-generation Malaysian Chinese family, Yeow's mother is of Hakka descent. Yeow attended SMK Convent Bukit Nanas. She immigrated to Australia at age 9 with her parents and brother, eventually settling in Adelaide, South Australia. After attending Seymour College and then the University of South Australia (where she earned a Bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Stone
Curtis Travis Stone (born 4 November 1975) is an Australian celebrity chef, author, and television personality. Stone has been the fresh food and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since 2010. Early life Stone was born in Melbourne in Australia. He grew up in the suburb of East Keilor. Stone began cooking with his paternal grandmother, Maude, at the age of four. His father, Bryan Stone, is an accountant, and his mother, Lorraine, is a florist; they separated when Stone was two years old. Stone attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School where he took home economics class and then went on to a commercial cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school. Career Stone studied for a Bachelor of Business at Victoria University before dropping out and deciding to pursue a career as a chef. He worked in Australian restaurants before leaving to work in London, where he debuted his cooking career at age 18 at the Savoy Hotel. Upon completing his qualifications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Purchese
Darren Purchese (born 3 February 1975) is an Australian chef, author and television personality. He is the creator of the popular cake and dessert business Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio in Melbourne, Australia. Purchese is a regular guest chef on Network 10's ''MasterChef Australia''. He was a judge on the 2023 season of '' The Great Australian Bake Off''. Career Pastry chef In 1997, Purchese joined the pastry department at the Savoy Hotel and worked under pastry chef William Curley in the main pastry department, the bakery and in the River Restaurant. He worked his way to the position of senior pastry chef before moving to the Goring Hotel in 2000 as head pastry chef. In 2002, he moved to Raffles Brown's Hotel in Mayfair as pastry chef of '1837' restaurant where he stayed until 2003. He then moved to the Bentley Hotel in Knightsbridge as executive pastry chef. It was during his time at the Bentley Hotel that he received an Acorn Award from the magazine '' Caterer and Hotelke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay (; born ) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, List of restaurants owned or operated by Gordon Ramsay, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds eight. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, which he founded, has held three Michelin stars since 2001 and is currently run by Chef Matt Abé. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries ''Boiling Point (miniseries), Boiling Point'' in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world. Ramsay's television persona is defined by his fiery temper, aggressive behaviour, strict demeanour, and frequent use of profanity, while making blunt, critical, and controversial comments, including insults and sardonic wisecracks about contestants and their cooking abilities. He combines activities in the television, fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer and television cook. After graduating from Oxford, Lawson worked as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of ''The Sunday Times'' in 1986. She then wrote for a number of newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist. In 1998, her first cookery book, ''How to Eat'', was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Her second book, ''How to Be a Domestic Goddess'', was published in 2000, winning the British Book Awards, British Book Award for Author of the Year. In 1999, Lawson hosted her own cooking show series, ''Nigella Bites'', on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. ''Nigella Bites'' won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. Her 2005 ITV (TV network), ITV daytime chat show ''Nigella'' met with a negative critical reaction and was cancelled after attracting low ratings. She hosted the Food Network's ''Nigella Feasts'' in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Jones (Australian Footballer)
Nathan Jones (born 20 January 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer known for playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is the older brother of player Zak Jones. He served as the captain of Melbourne from 2014 until he stepped down at the end of the 2019 season. Early life Jones played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup during his junior career and was selected to play for Vic Metro in the 2005 AFL Under-18 Championships. He was named in the 2005 Under-18 All-Australian team as a follower. He played in the TAC Cup Grand Final (now known as NAB League Boys) for Dandenong in 2005 and collected 36 disposals; however, they were defeated by 15 points by Gippsland Power. Growing up, he was a supporter. AFL career Jones was drafted to with their first selection and the 12th overall in the 2005 national draft. He made his debut against the in Round 17, 2006, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and played the remaining eight ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer was one of the judges on '' The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran until 2022 and is also a regular guest on ''MasterChef Australia''. Early life Maggie Beer was born in Sydney in January 1945, to Ronald Ackerman, whose German ancestry was from his paternal grandparents, and Doreen Carter, who had English ancestry from her maternal great-grandparents. Her father's ancestors were gold miners in Hill End in regional New South Wales. Beer believed they were Jewish, but this was refuted in an episode of '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', as it emerged that her ancestors had been Catholic for as long as there were records. She grew up with her family in Sydney's western suburbs. Beer's parents faced issues with bankruptcy as she was growing up and re-invented themselves as caterers. She stated this contributed to her strong work ethi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Chan
Diana Chan (born 20 December 1988) is a Malaysian-born Australian cook. She is the winner of ''MasterChef Australia'' for 2017, having defeated Ben Ungermann by one point in the grand finale. Early life Chan was born in Setiawan, Perak and raised in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, where she attended Convent Johor Bahru. She is the youngest of three children, having learned to cook by watching her parents prepare Peranakan and Cantonese food. At age 17, Chan moved to Kuala Lumpur to complete her Cambridge A levels. Upon matriculation, she moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where she completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at Deakin University in 2010. After qualifying as a chartered accountant, she subsequently worked for Deloitte Deloitte is a multinational professional services network based in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of employees, and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, along wi . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Duggan
Elena Jo Duggan (born 1 June 1983) is an Australian cook. She is the winner of the 2016 series of ''MasterChef Australia''. Early life Duggan was born in Cooroy, Queensland, and attended Noosa District State High School. She then attended the College of Fine Arts of the University of NSW where she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts. She subsequently completed a postgraduate degree in teaching from the University of Sydney. She went on to teach Visual Arts and was the head teacher of creative and performing arts at Galston High School in Sydney. MasterChef Australia Duggan applied to enter MasterChef in 2015 but she was unsuccessful. She applied again in 2016 and was accepted, having created an audition dish of fish and chips. On 26 July 2016 she competed in the final against Matt Sinclair, ultimately creating a better dessert and winning the series by 86 points to 84. She returned in season 11 in 2019 as a guest mentor for green team at Noosa Surf Club for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie McKay
Billie McKay (born 11 July 1991) is an Australian chef who won the MasterChef Australia (series 7), seventh season of ''MasterChef Australia'' in 2015, which led to an opportunity to work at Heston Blumenthal’s List of Michelin 3-star restaurants#United Kingdom, three Michelin-starred restaurant, The Fat Duck in the United Kingdom. In 2022, she returned as a fan-favourite contestant for the fourteenth series, ''MasterChef Australia (series 14), MasterChef Australia: Fans & Favourites'', and won the title for a second time, becoming the first and only contestant to win the competition twice. Early life McKay was raised on a dairy farm in Bowraville, New South Wales and attended Macksville High School. Prior to competing on ''MasterChef'', she was a restaurant manager in Ballina, New South Wales. Career She is best known as the winner of the MasterChef Australia (series 7), seventh series of ''MasterChef Australia''. Her prizes included $250,000, an Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Giul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
