Lyndey Milan OAM, a familiar face on television and in print, has been instrumental in changing the way Australians think about food and wine for over 30 years via her own nine best-selling cookbooks, eight TV series and influence as former Food Director of the iconic Australian Women’s Weekly.
She is an award-winning multi-media presenter, MC, speaker, food & wine teacher, consultant, debater, judge and regional Australian specialist who makes numerous TV & culinary appearances. She has an ability to connect with all audiences.
Current work
Lyndey is also Creative Director of Flame Media, an international TV Production and Distribution Company with offices worldwide.
She has a profile beyond Australia including: UK’s Saturday Kitchen; NBC Today Show during the Sydney Olympics; with Anthony Bourdain when he was filming in Australia; in Rick Stein’s Seafood Odyssey. During her eight years as co-host of Fresh with The Australian Women’s Weekly on the Nine Network Australia, she regularly hosted such visiting chefs as Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein and Gordon Ramsay.
Her most recent TV series Lyndey Milan’s Summer Baking Secrets screened on both the 7 Network and LifeStyle FOOD. She has also launched the Lyndey Milan Baking range. Lyndey Milan’s Taste of Australia continues to screen internationally and on airlines to rave reviews and was named Best Food TV series in the 2016 Gourmand World Awards. The accompanying book also won Best TV Chef Cookbook in the World at the 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and in the Best of the Best for the last 20 years at the Frankfurt Book Fair, won third overall. Other TV series include Lyndey & Herbie’s Moveable Feast, Lyndey Milan’s Taste of Ireland, Lyndey & Blair’s Taste of Greece, Lyndey’s Cracking Christmas, Lyndey Milan’s Baking Secrets and Inside Lyndey’s Kitchen. Other books include Lyndey & Blair’s Taste of Greece, Lyndey Milan, the Best Collection, Just Add Spice (co-authored with Ian Hemphill) and Balance, Matching Food and Wine, What Works and Why (with Colin Corney) which won Best Food and Wine Writing at the 2006 Australian Food Media Awards.
Lyndey is a popular guest on the various Australian networks’ morning shows and is a key contributor to Selector magazine, a bi-monthly publication for food and wine enthusiasts. Her unflagging energy sees her as Vice-President of the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW. She has just stepped down as Chair of the KPMG Sydney Royal Wine Show and is again Chair of the Fine Food Committee which she founded -which judges thousands of Australian products in categories including aquaculture, branded beef, branded lamb, professional bakery, coffee, beer, pasta and noodle, regional food, olive oil and deli meats.
Lyndey also runs a consultancy business which includes public speaking, appearances such as the Sydney Royal Easter Show, cooking classes, recipe development, food and wine appreciation classes and advising food and wine clients - in fact anything to do with food, wine, agriculture and lifestyle. She is on the Tourism Australia Food & Wine Advisory Panel and judges for many industry organisations and works voluntarily for various charities including as co-Founder and Patron of Tasting Success, a mentoring program for female chefs.
Previous experience
Awards: In 2012 her peers presented her with The Vittoria Legend Award, Sydney Morning Herald’s 2012 Good Food Guide. She was also named as a state finalist in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards. This was followed in 2014 with an Order of Australia, for service to hospitality, the food and wine industry and the community. She sits on the influential Food and Wine Advisory Committee for Tourism Australia.
Travel: A deep held love for food and wine has made Lyndey an inveterate traveller for both work and pleasure and she has been to all seven continents on earth. She has an extensive knowledge and enthusiasm for Mediterranean food and wine and hosts cruises and tours to the area with Travelrite, is an enrichment speaker for Silverseas cruises, a speaker on and is presenting on the Indian Pacific from Perth to Adelaide and hosting a tour to Puglia in May 2018. Her friendly personality make her the ideal person to lead a tour and she takes special pride in seeking out special food and wine experiences for her guests.
Lyndey Milan is every home cook hero's best friend and saviour...radiating kindness and geniality, she all but winks at the camera while demonstrating how simply and swiftly rustic meals can ... keep reading Sydney Morning Herald
Lyndey Milan is a natural at this kind of stuff, and this new series strikes a nice balance between local colour, fancy food and achievable recipes.
Her enthusiasm is infectious, her knowledge of food and wine impressive. And she conveys the message with such wit and simplicity.
Lyndey and Blair's Taste of Greece should simply be another buoyant, food lovers' road trip with a mother-and- son twist. It should be a sunny, retsina-fuelled romp with plenty of blinding white marble, honey-streaked yoghurt and whole roast sheep. Food journalist and broadcaster Lyndey Milan is known to her audience and certainly to her colleagues and friends as a cheerful, fun-loving extrovert. Nothing about her food is fussy or mean. Her generosity of spirit makes it clear to everyone that she is one of life's enjoyers.
