Lyndey Milan
Lyndey Milan is the Food Director of The Australian Women's Weekly for over seven years and she co-host of Fresh - with The Australian Women's Weekly daily on the Nine Network, makes a weekly appearance on Mornings with Kerri-Anne and holds honorary positions including as RAS Councillor, is a Past President of both the Food Media Club Australia Inc. and The Wine Press Club of NSW and is on the Food and Wine Tourism Advisory Committee for Tourism NSW.
In 2006 she won the Fine Wine Partners Award for Best Food and Wine Writing in The Vittoria Australian Food Media Awards for her book Balance. Matching Food and Wine. What Works and Why (Hachette $34.95) co-authored with Colin Corney and won a Highly commended for Best Radio Segment with Murray Wilton from The Good Life on 2GB.
During 1999 she was the inaugural Food and Wine Editor of Australian TABLE, shaping the food and wine content of this magazine which won two MPA (Magazine Publishers' Association) awards during her time there. Under her guidance, The Australian Women's Weekly won the Bronze Ladle in the World Food Media Awards for the category Best Food Section in a Magazine in 2001 and was again a finalist in 2003. She was also a finalist as presenter for Fresh in the category Short Form TV and the show Fresh for the Long Format in 2003.
Prior to this she had written on food, wine, travel and lifestyle for most magazines and newspapers. She was a regular guest on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia for several years, having previously featured in Good Taste on the 10 Network in 1997, At Home with John Mangos from 1993-5 on Network 7 and on Monday to Friday in 1996. She presented a food and wine segment on Sydney radio station 2UE for some fifteen years and is heard with Murray Wilton on 2GB on Monday nights. At the Sydney Olympics 2000 she did a live cross to the U.S., cooking on the prestigious "Weekend Today Show", the second highest ratings of all USA national breakfast television shows (beaten only the weekday NBC Today Show).
Other accolades include winning the highly prestigious Food Media Club of Australia Industry Peer Award in 1999. In 1995 she was awarded the inaugural Restaurant and Caterer's Association Award for Excellence for Outstanding Contribution to Food Media Journalism, was a finalist in 1996 and won again in 1997. She also won an Honourable Mention in the Food Media Club's Awards in 1997 and 1999. She also works voluntarily for various charities and is An Australia Day Ambassador and for the Eating Disorders Foundation.
Before it became overtaken by media commitments, she founded and ran a flourishing catering business "Cuisine Affaire" for 12 years including 18 months running, with her partners Cafe Cuisine Affaire - real "feet-on-the ground" food service experience in all its forms. She has been involved in many food festivals both in Sydney and around Australia. She is much in demand for personal appearances such as at The Sydney Seafood School, The Royal Easter Show, Masterclasses around Australia, as a debater, food judge and MC. In 1999 she was the Chilli Queen of the Noosa Hot and Spicy Food Festival.
She has written four best selling cookbooks: Plates. Real Food For Fast People which won an ABPA design award; Flavours, A Fresh Approach, with its innovative guide to food and wine matching; Lyndey Milan's Fabulous Food (the latter two both finalists in the 1999 World Food Media Awards) and a collaborative book with Loukie Werle Balls The All Round Cookbook which has had two international translations. An inspector for The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide since 1987 she also contributed a chapter "The Great Outdoors" to the Focus book Australia - A Gourmet's Paradise.
Lyndey Milan's forte is presenting seemingly complicated ideas in an easy, straight-forward and entertaining manner. She has passion, laughter and infectious enthusiasm, a communicator with a practical as well as an academic interest in food, wine and lifestyle. With two grown up children of her own, she well understands the more mundane realities of life.
