BEHIND THE WORDS

About Me
Award-winning freelance food, travel and lifestyle journalist.
I started writing professionally in 1990 and have been writing across a broad spectrum of subjects; food, travel, lifestyle, architecture and anything else that caught my interest, but food and travel have always been my great loves, both personally and as writing topics.
I've authored a non-fiction book, worked as a journalist in both news and features and was Food Editor at The Courier Mail newspaper in Brisbane.
Between 2012 and 2016, I was editor of Fairfax' Brisbane Times Good Food Guide; newly established stablemate to The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide and The Melbourne Age Good Food Guide.
Publications I've written over my 20-something year career include; Delicious, Explore, Time Out (UK) TNT (UK) Footloose (UK) Traveller (UK) Ms London (UK) The Hampstead & Highgate Express (UK), Dateline (UK) Health, Body & Beauty, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, Brisbane News, The Herald Sun, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Traveller, The Guardian, Virgin in-flight Magazine, The Sun Herald, Qantas Magazine, Spirit Magazine, delicious Magazine, Indulge Magazine, Jetstar in-flight Magazine, West End Magazine, goodfood.com.au, Travelinsider, taste.com.au, visitbrisbane.com.au and lots more.
As a restaurant reviewer, I've eaten and written for The Courier Mail Food & Wine Guide, Australian Gourmet Traveller Food and Wine Guide, The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide, The SMH Good Food Guide, goodfood.com.au, and Phaidon's Where Chefs Eat -2018 edition.
I've recently discovered podcasting (the doing, not the listening) and enjoy interviewing and producing my travel and food podcast ExtraVirgin.
In my spare time, when I'm not half-heartedly attending the gym, I love travelling to slightly off-beat locations, freestyle cooking and occasionally leading tours to introduce food lovers to artisan producers and farmers.
5 More Things About Me
A food I Ioathe is... green capsicum.
My most memorable trip was.... Chilean Patagonia, equal first with a South African and Zimbabwean safari trip
My death-row meal would be... linguine with white truffles and a bottle of Barolo (yes, the whole bottle). My mum's plum pudding and custard for desert.
My worst habit is... procrastibaking
My bucket list destination is... Greenland.