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Matt Preston @ Cumulus Inc
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We'd like to invite you to an evening with
Le Cordon Bleu World's Best Food Journalist Matt Preston in
conversation with The Age Good Food Guide's 2010 Chef of the Year
Andrew McConnell at Cumulus Inc.
Join Matt for a retrospective look at
Andrew's contribution to food in Melbourne over the past decade and to
celebrate the publication of Matt's new book 'Cravat-a-licious'.
Date: Monday 5th October from 7pm
Venue: Arc One Gallery, Cumulus Inc 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Bookings: Essential - $120pp - contact Cumulus Inc - phone 9650 1445
Matt's new book will be available for sale during the evening. If you can't attend, signed & personalised copies can be organised for you or your friends & family - just contact us!
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$34.95
available from 1 October
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About Cravat-a-licious
Australia
knows him as the cravat-wearing critic and hulking soulful judge on
TV's crazily successful Master.Chef Australia but it's his writing that
has had the food world talking for the last ten years.
Here are all his best stories and columns: a collection of Matt's irreverent, intelligent, and amusing adventures in food.
This
book will take you from the best restaurants in the world to grungy
hole in the walls on the wrong side of town; from the ritual of a
traditional pig annual kill to lunch at a Sikh temple in the suburbs;
basically wherever the world's best food can be found.
There are
insightful interviews with some of the world's most influential
food thinkers, romps across continents in search of the world's finest
salt and sugars, and more than a few insights - from the compelling to
the completely bizarre - from the set of Australia's biggest TV show,
MasterChef.
You'll also find simple solutions for making
everything from jam to the perfect risotto - even how to create an
authentic Seventies soiree - each told in Matt's unique style.
It's
all here. The stories that won him the title of Australia's Best New
Food Writer in 2000, those that subsequently saw him win top national
awards for both his food and recipe writing and the pieces that earned
him his current title, that of the Le Cordon Bleu World's Best Food
Journalist.
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About Matt...
Matt Preston is a food journalist and restaurant critic. Best known for
his weekly restaurant column in The Age newspaper's food section,
"Epicure", and as a judge on MasterChef Australia, Preston is also an
editor of Vogue Entertaining + Travel and delicious magazines, and a
former Creative Director of the Melbourne Food and Wine
Festival.
Matt was educated in Sussex and graduated from the
University of Kent with a BA Hons in Politics and Government. He began
his career in the sales and marketing departments of British magazines,
including City Limits where he wrote the "Backhanders" column for five
years. He then spent four years with UK magazines, TV Times and What's
on TV, becoming head of their promotions and marketing department. In
1993 Preston moved to Australia where he worked as an Australian soap
opera correspondent for British magazines What's On TV, TV Times and
Women's Own.
In 2009 Matt joined Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris
on the judging panel of the first season of MasterChef Australia, a
reality television competition to find Australia's best home
cook..He is a contributor to The Age Good Food Guide and Food and
Wine (US). He has appeared on Network 10's 9am with David and Kim as
well as SBS's Blue List, Channel 9's Postcards and Channel 7's
Absolutely Melbourne.Preston has appeared on radio as a guest on Denis
Walter's show on 3AW, and on 774 ABC Melbourne, where he has also
co-hosted a number of times.
Previous positions include five years as
the National Chief Judge for Restaurant and Catering's National Awards
for Excellence, contributing drink editor to Good Taste magazine and as
the "secret reviewer" on series one of Channel 7's My Restaurant
Rules. In 2003, 2004 and 2006 Preston won Food Media Club of Australia
awards for articles which appeared in the "Epicure" section of The Age,
and in 2008 he won the Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards, Food
Journalist of the Year Award for articles published in delicious and
"Epicure". |
