Matt Preston

Biography

TOPICS: MC, SPEAKERS, CELEBRITY, CHEF, COOKING.
Matt Preston is a food journalist restaurant critic and Television Personality. Recently Matt joined News Ltd to write a new column for the Taste Section. Previous to this appointment Matt wrote for The Age newspapers food section, Epicure, and Vogue Entertaining + Travel . Best known as a judge on MasterChef Australia, Preston continues writing for delicious magazines, and is a former Creative Director of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Preston has appeared as a guest on the Australian talk show Rove, and the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. He was also a guest panelist on Network Ten’s Before the Game and The 7pm Project. Preston has been parodied twice on Chasers War on Everything, and also on Channel Nine’s The Footy Show.
Preston has also appeared on the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club and SBSs historic quiz show AD/BC and judged on Celebrity MasterChef Australia. His book Cravat-A-Licious was released on October 1, 2009. Matt also released a compilation album “Matt Preston – Music from another Platter” of music to cook to and eat by. 2010 see’s the return of Preston in the 2nd Series of MasterChef Australia.
BASED: MELBOURNE/SYDNEY, BUT TRAVELS EVERYWHERE.