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Guts : a memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances

Leong, Melissa2025
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Gold Logie-nominated TV personality and food icon Melissa Leong bites down on her demons in this searing memoir, exploring themes of abuse in the hospitality industry, racism, mental health and, for a light palate cleanser, the thrill of mouth-wateringly memorable food. Most of all, she inspires the courage to create a life you really, really want. 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.
Main title:
Guts : a memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances / Melissa Leong.
Author:
Leong, Melissa, author
Work:
Guts : a memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances
Imprint:
Cammeraygal Country ; Crows Nest, NSW : Murdoch Books, 2025.©2025
Collation:
326 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
97819226167609781922616760 (paperback)
Dewey class:
641.092641
Language:
English
Subject:
Leong, MelissaWomen food writers -- Australia -- BiographyFood writers -- Australia -- BiographyAutobiographies
BRN:
858367
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=858367
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