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MasterChef Australia (series 7)
The seventh series of the Australian cooking game show ''MasterChef Australia'' premiered on 5 May 2015 on Network Ten. This series was won by Billie McKay in the grand finale against Georgia Barnes on 27 July 2015. The announcement of the winner was watched by 2.2 million metro viewers, making it one of the most watched shows of 2015. Changes Shannon Bennett took on the role of guest mentor, guiding contestants participating in Immunity Challenges, the role Kylie Kwong held in series 6. Unlike the sixth series, the advantage for the Immunity Challenge was now handed to the contestant's choice instead of the chef. The use of the power apron was now reduced to one day in a week only and it passed down to the next contestant who excelled in the subsequent challenge. Contestants Top 24 The Top 24 were revealed on 5–6 May 2015. Prior to the first competition round, Mario Montecuollo was disqualified after his five-month professional kitchen experience violated the show's guide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Preston
Matt Preston (born 21 July 1961) is an English-Australian food critic, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's ''MasterChef Australia'' between 2009 and 2019, and for his weekly national food column that appears in NewsCorp's metro newspapers, with a combined reach of over 2.9 million Australians each week. Preston is also a senior editor for ''Delicious.'' and ''Taste'' magazines, and is also the author of four best-selling cookbooks. Career Preston is the son of British naval historian and journalist Antony Preston. He was born in London, United Kingdom, 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. After a few stints working at City Limits and IPC Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Analyst
A financial analyst is a professional, undertaking financial analysis for external or internal clients as a core feature of the job. The role may specifically be titled securities analyst, research analyst, equity analyst, investment analyst, or ratings analyst.Financial Analysts Bureau of Labor StatisticsFinancial Analysts collegegrad.com The job title is a broad one: [...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 is one of the judges on ''The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran 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 lived in Hill End located in regional New South Wales and were gold miners. 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 ... [...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, Victoria. 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 2 years old. Stone attended an all-boys high 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 before 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 as a chef, Stone began cooking under Marco Pierre White at the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Pierre White
Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He has been dubbed "the first celebrity chef" and the ''enfant terrible'' of the UK restaurant scene. In January 1995, aged 33, White became the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars. He has trained notable chefs such as Mario Batali, Heston Blumenthal, Shannon Bennett, Gordon Ramsay and Curtis Stone. Early life Marco Pierre White was born in Leeds on 11 December 1961, the third of four sons born to Maria-Rosa Gallina, an Italian immigrant from Veneto, and Frank White, a chef. He left Allerton High School in Leeds without any qualifications and decided to train as a chef like his father. Career White first trained at Hotel St George in Harrogate and then at the Box Tree in Ilkley. In 1981, he went to London with "£7.36, a box of books, and a bag of clothes", and began his classical training as a '' commis'' with Albert and Michel Roux at Le Gavroche. He con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sat Bains
Satwant Singh "Sat" Bains (born 28 February 1971) is an English chef best known for being chef proprietor of the two-Michelin star ''Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms'' in Nottingham, England. He won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, and worked in France, before returning to the UK and opening his own restaurant. Bains was also one of the winners on the BBC show ''Great British Menu'' in 2007. Early life Satwant Bains was born on 28 February 1971 in Derby, England. His parents were Sikhs who had only recently migrated to the UK. Throughout his childhood, Bains's father owned a number of shops, resulting in Sat's first job as a paperboy. His mother was a housewife, and cooked mostly vegetarian meals, although would occasionally cook keema on a Saturday. Bains would later recall that he wasn't interested in learning how to cook during his childhood. Career At the age of 18, he attended the Wilmorton site of Derby College, reportedly only joining the catering course because it had the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Bottura
Massimo Bottura (; born 30 September 1962) is an Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ..., Italy ranked No.1 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list twice and currently part of the Best of the Best list. Early career and life Massimo Bottura was born and raised in Modena, Italy. He developed an interest in cooking from a young age while watching his mother, grandmother and aunt in the kitchen, preparing meals for the family. After secondary school, he enrolled in law school at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, but in 1986 he interrupted his studies and chose to join the family business, where he initially worked as a wholesaler of petroleum product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Owens
Brent Owens (born 23 August 1989) is an Australian cook. He is the winner of the MasterChef Australia (series 6), sixth series of ''MasterChef Australia''. He gave $50,000 of his $250,000 prize money to fellow contestant Emelia Jackson. He wrote a cook book, ''Dig In!'', for people who come home tired at the end of the day to make a stellar dish with minimal effort. He lives in Melton, Melbourne. From age 18, Owens worked as a skid-steer loader, bobcat driver for Ancrum's father's excavation business. Owens bought a house at age 19. He played Australian rules football for the Melton South Football Club in the Ballarat Football League. After working as a cook, Owens left Australia to pursue a career in biotechnology. He is studying life science at Harvard University and is the co-founder of Vitrafy, a biotech company. References External links * * http://brentowens.com.au/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Owens, Brent Living people Participants in Australian reality television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef Australia (series 14)
The fourteenth series of the Australian cooking game show '' MasterChef Australia'' premiered on 18 April 2022 on Network 10. The format for this season is ''Fans & Favourites'', and features 12 new contestants and 12 former contestants. Andy Allen, Melissa Leong, and Jock Zonfrillo returned to the show as judges from the previous season. In October 2021, Ten announced that ''MasterChef Australia'' would return for its 14th season in 2022, initially announced as ''Foodies Vs. Favourites''. In January 2022, production was temporarily halted after several members of the cast and production team contracted the COVID-19 virus. The judges, cast and crew are all fully vaccinated against the virus. This series was won by Billie McKay in the grand finale against Sarah Todd, on 12 July 2022, making her the first and only two-time ''MasterChef Australia'' champion. Changes This season omitted the broadcast of the audition stage for the new contestants and started with the 24 contest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef Indonesia (season 5)
''MasterChef Indonesia'' is an Indonesian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British series of the same name, open to amateur and home chefs. Produced by Endemol Shine Group, it debuted on 1 May 2011 on RCTI and has nine seasons to date. Format ''MasterChef'' Indonesia airs two days a week from Saturday to Sunday. The competition takes place in the RCTI's studio in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta which is known as ''MasterChef Gallery'' and includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, and a freezer. At the audition round, the contestants have to prepare their mainstay dish for around 30 minutes. The judges can advance them to the next round based on their dishes by deciding to give them an apron or not. In the bootcamp round, the first challenge is to have the contestants perform basic skills such as filleting a fish, peeling shrimp, etc. During that time, the judges will observe their te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef Australia (series 13)
The thirteenth series of the Australian cooking game show ''MasterChef Australia'' premiered on 19 April 2021 on Network 10. Andy Allen, Melissa Leong, and Jock Zonfrillo returned to the show as judges from the previous season. Applications for contestants for the 13th series of ''MasterChef Australia'' were open between April and August 2020. Changes Only three Immunity Pins were up for grabs this season, which all 24 contestants competed for during the first Mystery Box challenge. In addition to being exempt from the first Elimination Challenge, the holders of the Immunity Pins were able to use them at any point during future Elimination Challenges, including right up to the end of a challenge. The Second Chance Challenge returned as Second Chance Week, with ''two'' eliminated contestants being given the chance to return instead of one. Contestants Top 24 The Top 24 contestants were announced on 19–20 April 2021. Future Appearances In Series 14 The Series 14 – NY ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MasterChef Australia (series 12)
The twelfth series of the Australian cooking game show '' MasterChef Australia'', also known as ''MasterChef Australia: Back To Win'', premiered on 13 April 2020. It is the first series to feature series four winner Andy Allen, Melissa Leong and Jock Zonfrillo serving as judges, after the departure of Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston in the previous season. This series involves former high-achieving contestants from the past eleven series of '' MasterChef Australia'', returning for another chance at the title of 'MasterChef' and a prize of A$250,000. Applications for contestants for the twelfth series of '' MasterChef Australia'' opened in May 2019. However, plans were changed when contestants from previous seasons were brought onboard instead of new contestants. The competition was won by Emelia Jackson in the grand finale against Laura Sharrad, broadcast on 20 July 2020. Changes Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston departed the show in 2019 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
