Lyndey Milan

Multi Award Winning Communicator on Food, Wine and Lifestyle

Lyndey Milan is one of Australia’s most recognised food, wine and lifestyle personalities whose forte is presenting seemingly complicated ideas in an easy, straight-forward and entertaining manner.

Lyndey has just launched her seventh book, Just Add Spice (Penguin), co-authored with Ian ‘Herbie’ Hemphill. In late 2009 Lyndey released her sixth book: The Best Collection, Fast, Fabulous Recipes (New Holland).

Lyndey was enticed back to the iconic Australian Women’s Weekly in late 2009 as Contributing Food Director – she was previously Food Director of that publication for nearly nine years. She also spent 12 months as Associate Food Director and major contributor to BBC Australian Good Food magazine.

Lyndey appears weekly on Mornings with Kerri–Anne on the Nine Network and was previously co–host of Fresh on the same network for over eight years. This followed a media career encompassing all commercial TV networks, radios 2UE and 2GB, innumerable magazines and newspapers.

In acknowledgment, Lyndey was awarded the highly prestigious Australian Association of Food Professionals (formerly Food Media Club of Australia) Industry Peer Award in 1999 and 2008 – the only person to do so twice.

As well as media appearances and books, Lyndey runs a successful consultancy business that includes public speaking, appearances, cooking classes and demonstrations, food and wine appreciation classes and advising food and wine clients – in fact anything to do with food, wine, agriculture and lifestyle.

She is much in demand for personal appearances such as at The Sydney Seafood School, The Royal Easter Show, various food and wine shows, Masterclasses and as a facilitator, debater, food judge and MC.

Her unflagging energy sees her as a board member and councillor of the Royal Agricultural Society where she currently chairs the Fine Food Committee – a committee she formed in 2001 that now judges thousands of Australian products in categories including aquaculture, branded beef, branded lamb, bread, cake and pie, coffee, beer, pasta and noodle, regional food, olive oil and deli meat.

She is past President of the Australian Association of Food Professionals (formerly Food Media Club Australia), Wine Communicators Australia (formerly Wine Press Club), and a past member of the Tourism NSW Food and Wine Advisory Committee. She is an Australia Day Ambassador, 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.