Matt Preston

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For the English soccer player, see Matt Preston (footballer).
Matt Preston
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Matt Preston at the 2012 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia
Born (1961-07-02) 2 July 1961 (age 62)
London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation Food journalist
critic
writer
television personality
Known for MasterChef Australia judge
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Spouse(s) Emma Preston
Children 3 children
Website http://mattpreston.me/

Matt Preston (born 2 July 1961) is an English Australian food journalist, restaurant critic, writer, and television personality.[1] He is known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia and his weekly food column in the Taste[2] supplement available in the Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph (Australia) newspapers. Preston is a columnist for Taste.com.au magazine and a senior editor for delicious. magazine. He is also the author of three best-selling cookbooks. [3]

Biography

Preston is the son of well-respected British Naval historian/journalist Antony Preston. He was born in London, United Kingdom, and was educated in Sussex at Worth School, and graduated from the University of Kent with a BA Hons in Politics and Government. While growing up in London in the late 1970's, he became a DJ and punk musician.[4]

After stints working at City Limits and IPC Magazines (TVTimes & What’s On TV)[5] , Preston relocated to Australia in October 1993. Initially he worked for IPC Magazines as their Australian TV correspondent writing about Neighbours and Home & Away for TVTimes, What’s on TV and Woman’s Own. He subsequently wrote for a number of Australian trade publications owned by IPC’s parent company, Reed Business Publishing including Encore, Supermarket News and Counterpoint.

In 1996, Matt Preston started writing reviews for a new Melbourne magazine, Inside Melbourne,[6] a role that he held until he moved on to write reviews for The Age in February 2000.

Preston also works as a regular food correspondent in a number of publications, including Taste, a supplement in the Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and The Daily Telegraph (Australia) newspapers and MasterChef Magazine, delicious. (Senior Editor), Australian Good Taste as the drink reviewer, The Guardian newspaper (UK) and Time Out (London). Preston was a weekly contributor to Epicure between 2000 and 2009, writing a weekly review of a cafe or restaurant. He also wrote a weekly column in The Age's A2 and was a senior editor at Vogue Entertaining & Travel. Preston has made many appearances on Australian radio.

Today Preston is best known as the co-host and judge on MasterChef Australia. He also works as a food columnist and regular food correspondent in a number of publications including Taste, a weekly colour supplement in the Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail, Adelaide Advertiser, and Daily Telegraph (Australia) newspapers. This column is also syndicated to the Sunday Times in Perth and The Mercury is Tasmania. Matt is a senior editor at delicious. magazine, and columnist at taste.com.au magazine.

Masterchef

In 2009, Preston joined Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris on the judging panel of the first season of MasterChef Australia (Network 10), a reality television competition to find Australia's best amateur chef. Preston says that his favourite part of MasterChef Australia is 'the joy that comes from the contestants delivering us a delicious dish that's a pleasure to eat." MasterChef series one and series two both won the TVWeek Logie for Australia’s Best Reality Series. Preston has judged all seven series of MasterChef Australia (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), as well as Celebrity MasterChef (2009), the first series of Junior MasterChef (2010) and Masterchef All Stars (2012) with Mehigan and Calombaris.

In 2013 Preston went it alone to host MasterChef Australia: The Professionals [7] with Marco Pierre White. The show premiered on 20 January 2013 and subsequently won the prestigious AACTA for Best Reality Show in the 2014 awards.[8]

Other television work: Matt has also made numerous other appearances on TV shows including multiple appearances on The Project, Good News Week, Studio 10, The Living Room, The Circle and Rove Live (all Network 10). He has also appeared on This Week Live (10), ADBC and The Blue List (SBS), Compass (ABC), The Today Show and Postcards (both Ch9) and Coxy’s Big Break (Ch7). He was also chosen as the secret reviewer in the first season of Channel Seven’s My Restaurant Rules [9] Preston has also taken small acting roles on Offspring (Network 10) [10] and Lowdown (ABC) [11] and Neighbours (Network 10).[12]

Vogue Entertaining + Travel and delicious

Matt has been contributing to Australia's leading glossy food magazines, writing about restaurants, chefs, and leading culinary destinations. The role has taken him to more than 30 regions across Australia and the world. He is currently Vogue Entertaining's restaurant reviewer, focusing on Australia's influential restaurant openings.[1]

Epicure and The Age

Matt began regularly contributing to the Epicure food section of The Age in February 2000. He writes a weekly review of a cafe or ethnic eatery in his 'Unexplored' column in Epicure and, since February 2009, has written a weekly column in The Age on Saturday's A2 section. Preston also contributes cover stories to Epicure, for which he has won a number of awards.

Other professional roles

  • Creative Director, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (2004-2009).[1]
  • Contributor, The Age Good Food Guide; Food and Wine (US).[1]
  • Five years as National Chief Judge for Restaurant and Catering's National Awards for Excellence.[1]
  • Contributing drink editor, Good Taste magazine.[1]
  • Secret reviewer on Channel 7's My Restaurant Rules (series one).[1]
  • Judge in The World's Best 50 Restaurants Awards.[13][14]

Personal life

A soccer fan, Preston supports Chelsea FC and Melbourne Victory. He supports the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL.

His biggest cooking triumphs are: "The national award I've won for my jam recipes and cooking a BBQ for 1,000 people at the Noosa Food and Wine Festival with some volunteers and chef mates.[15] His favourite inspirational cooking quote: "It's not the food on the table, but the eyes across the table that matter" - Robert Castellani, chef at Melbourne's Donovan's restaurant.[15]

At the age of 38 Matt Preston had his first child. Preston's first son was named after the successful and hilarious children's cartoon that was around when Matt was young, "Felix The Cat", subsequently naming his eldest son Felix. After a rough divorce, Felix chose to keep his mother's name and now visits his father at least once a week. Preston's second son is William Preston, currently studying at Melbourne Grammar School in Melbourne, Victoria.

Books

Cravat-A-Licious, a collection of food writing, was launched on 1 October 2009.[16] Matt Preston's 100 Best Recipes (Plum/Pan Macmillan) was launched 23 October 2012. He is a contributor to Food and Wine (US). The Story of Jack - 2009

Accolades

Preston has won a number of awards, both individually and as the leader of an organisation, including:

  • 2003 Food Media Club of Australia Grand Marnier Award for Best New Writer Winner: Matt Preston for articles published in the Epicure section of The Age.
  • 2004 Food Media Club of Australia Australian Mushroom Growers’ Award Best Food Article Winner: Matt Preston for “The Temple Kitchen”, Epicure, The Age.
  • 2006 Food Media Club of Australia Calypso Mango Award for Best Recipe Feature in a Newspaper or Newspaper Magazine Winner: Matt Preston for "Preserving knowledge", Epicure, The Age.
  • 2008 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards, Food Journalist of the Year for articles in Delicious Magazine and the Epicure section of The Age.[17]
  • 2010 The Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent (Male).
  • 2011 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards Winner – Awesome Oldie.[18]
  • Preston appears in Who's Who in Australia 2011 edition.[19]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 http://mattpreston.me/
  2. ↑ "NewsSpace - Taste"
  3. ↑ "Does Blumenthal smell of Caramel, Matt Preston, Epicure, The Age, 9 April 2009"
  4. ↑ "ABC-TV Compass:Life's Big Question Questions: Matt Preston. 20/2/2011"
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  13. ↑ http://www.theworlds50best.com/
  14. ↑ http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/attica-eatery-from-melbourne-enters-san-pellegrino-worlds-50-best-restaurants-list-for-the-first-time/story-e6frfkp9-1226632375630
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Eye on the Prize", The Guide, 'Herald Sun', 3 June 2009"
  16. ↑ "Cravat-A-Licious, Matt Preston, Random House, 10 October 2009"
  17. ↑ "The hottest dish at Icebergs", Sunday Telegraph, 5 July 2009"
  18. ↑ Australian Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2011 Winners List
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