Adam Liaw, who scooped the Masterchef title back in 2010, has been signed up to present his own TV show on SBS.
Formerly a media lawyer with Kelly & Co in Tokyo, Liaw handed in his notice at the start of 2010 to take part in the culinary competition in what turned out to be a very legal-centric series, with three lawyer contestants. His punt paid off when he was crowned Australia's second ever Masterchef winner, after producing the intriguingly-titled "guava snow eggs". Yum.
Since then Liaw has written a cookbook and used his $100k winnings to set up a Japanese restaurant in Sydney, which should be opening its doors soon. Now he has a televisual string to his bow, signing a contract with SBS to front travel show Destination Flavour, according to a Telegraph report. The show will see the intrepid ex-lawyer visiting restaurants, growers and producers around the country. Nice work if you can get it. And probably infinitely preferable to late nights in airless data rooms.
But fellow legal Masterchef 2010 contestants have not managed to escape the shackles of law. Finalist Peter Kritikides is back as a senior associate at Lander & Rogers and controversial 2010 contestant Claire Winton Burn (who was the talk of gossip mags after a getting engaged to a married Clayton Utz partner and father of three) has reportedly ditched her food writing aspirations to return to the warm embrace of the law.
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Formerly a media lawyer with Kelly & Co in Tokyo, Liaw handed in his notice at the start of 2010 to take part in the culinary competition in what turned out to be a very legal-centric series, with three lawyer contestants. His punt paid off when he was crowned Australia's second ever Masterchef winner, after producing the intriguingly-titled "guava snow eggs". Yum.
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The guava snow egg - it doesn't get weirder than this |
Since then Liaw has written a cookbook and used his $100k winnings to set up a Japanese restaurant in Sydney, which should be opening its doors soon. Now he has a televisual string to his bow, signing a contract with SBS to front travel show Destination Flavour, according to a Telegraph report. The show will see the intrepid ex-lawyer visiting restaurants, growers and producers around the country. Nice work if you can get it. And probably infinitely preferable to late nights in airless data rooms.
But fellow legal Masterchef 2010 contestants have not managed to escape the shackles of law. Finalist Peter Kritikides is back as a senior associate at Lander & Rogers and controversial 2010 contestant Claire Winton Burn (who was the talk of gossip mags after a getting engaged to a married Clayton Utz partner and father of three) has reportedly ditched her food writing aspirations to return to the warm embrace of the law.