Guts Melissa Leong
Guts: A memoir of food failure and taking impossible chances Melissa Leong A gripping, incisive and darkly funny memoir from food and style icon and MasterChef Australia 's first female judge, Melissa Leong.
From Melissa Leong (aka fooderati) — the first female judge of MasterChef Australia and Dessert Masters, fashion obsessive and self-confessed contrarian — comes an evocative, sharp, darkly funny and often brutal account of what it's like to try, fail and scrape together the confidence to try again. She invites you to consider your own limiting self-beliefs. and give them the finger.
These stories take place inside kitchens and television studios, on farms and even in an abattoir. Leong shares how her dream of being a concert pianist crumbled due to chronic pain, her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation Singaporean Chinese woman, how blowing up her life to reset her path was maybe (definitely!) worth it, and why going your own way absolutely is.
Garnished with Leong's favourite recipes, Guts is above all a glorious love letter to food, to choosing the unpredictable path and to believing in yourself even — and especially — when the odds are stacked against you.
No guts, no glory. Hope you're hungry.
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From Melissa Leong (aka fooderati) — the first female judge of MasterChef Australia and Dessert Masters, fashion obsessive and self-confessed contrarian — comes an evocative, sharp, darkly funny and often brutal account of what it's like to try, fail and scrape together the confidence to try again. She invites you to consider your own limiting self-beliefs. and give them the finger.
These stories take place inside kitchens and television studios, on farms and even in an abattoir. Leong shares how her dream of being a concert pianist crumbled due to chronic pain, her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation Singaporean Chinese woman, how blowing up her life to reset her path was maybe (definitely!) worth it, and why going your own way absolutely is.
Garnished with Leong's favourite recipes, Guts is above all a glorious love letter to food, to choosing the unpredictable path and to believing in yourself even — and especially — when the odds are stacked against you.
No guts, no glory. Hope you're hungry.
: ISBN: 9781922616760 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Category: Biography Pub Date: 30 September 2025 Page Extent: 336 Format: Trade Paperback
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