Bio

ALICE HAS AN APPETITE FOR LIVING LIFE WITH GUSTO

Alice Zaslavsky has made a career out of crafting connections through food, as teacher, writer, television host-producer and live presenter.

Before making her on-screen debut on MasterChef Australia in 2012, Alice was the youngest dep. head of department at an elite Melbourne school, going on the program to drum up interest in a 'Food & Culture' elective. She has since made the living-room her classroom, hosting kids' food and lifestyle programs Crunch Time and Kitchen Whiz on Nine’s Go! Channel and Short Cuts to Glory (for slightly bigger kids) on ABC, where she’s also the resident Culinary Conversationalist on ABC News Breakfast.

On the airwaves, Alice co-hosts a regular VEG SEG on ABC Radio Drive, where listeners call in to share their favourite recipes and anecdotes about seasonal vegetables. As Food Editor for The Weekly Review, her Feed was a weekly fixture in 630,000 homes across Melbourne. Her best-selling fresh food fact book, Alice’s Alice's Food A-Z was the first cookbook to be given a Notable gong by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.

Alice has put all of her experience and talents to full use in founding A-Z Food LIT, putting food literacy back on the agenda in schools. Her pilot project, Phenomenom, a free digital food literacy program for primary schools funded by industry and government, helps redirect the conversation around kids and vegetables, through clever content and creative execution.