Masterchef Australia - Season 11 Direct

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Masterchef Australia - Season 11 Direct

Included appearances by Rick Stein , Yotam Ottolenghi , and Clare Smyth .

The iconic trio of Matt Preston, George Calombaris, and Gary Mehigan served as judges for their 11th and final consecutive season. MasterChef Australia - Season 11

The season began with 24 home cooks selected from across Australia. Memorable Guest Chefs & Challenges Included appearances by Rick Stein , Yotam Ottolenghi

Replacing Shannon Bennett, former champions Billie McKay , Poh Ling Yeow , and finalist Matt Sinclair returned as in-house mentors to guide the Top 24. Included appearances by Rick Stein

Featured world-renowned chefs like Massimo Bottura and Jock Zonfrillo (who would later become a judge). Top Highlights

About the Author

Elaine Chiew is a fiction writer and visual arts researcher. She is a two-time winner of The Bridport Prize, amidst other prizes and shortlistings. Her debut short story collection, The Heartsick Diaspora, will be coming out with Myriad Editions (U.K.). She is also the compiler and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015), and has had numerous stories in anthologies and journals. She also writes flash fiction (named Wigleaf Top 50 twice, along other honours). In October 2017, she was the Writer in Residence at Singapore’s premier School of the Arts. She received an M.A. in Asian Art Histories from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. In addition to writing freelance on Asian visual arts for magazines like ArtReview Asia, she also blogs about contemporary Asian writers at AsianBooksBlog and the visual arts on her blog, Invisible Flâneuse.

About the Artist

Fanny Cammaert is a digital artist living in Belgium. She adopted the stage name Lizzie Stardust as a member of the electro group Velvet Underwear. Since recording and touring with that group, she began working in visual media. Drawing on the kilim weaving that is part of her Ukrainian heritage, her art explores the interplay of digital patterns and electronic glitches. Thematically, her work brings digital infinity into connection with human emotions.

This story appeared in Issue Sixty-Three of SmokeLong Quarterly.

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MasterChef Australia - Season 11 In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives—one new writing task each week.

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