Food, Cooking and Health are three main passions of mine with 25 years experience as a corporate culinary home economist.

Previously working with David Jones in Melbourne Australia as a Food Product Developer for Food at David Jones Private Label in Fresh category for the past 4 years. Then prior with BSH (Bosch Siemens Home Appliances) in Melbourne Australia as a cooking instructor for ovens, stove tops, and white goods. I also was working at Epworth Freemasons Private and Maternity Hospital in East Melbourne Australia as a cook. The year prior my weekends were spent cooking lunch and dinner for 65 elders and high care patients in a residential aged care facility.

Have been a guest food judge and restaurant reviewer over the years for various corporations and industries.

I have worked at McCormick Australia in Melbourne for 5.5 years as a Senior Culinary Home Economist developing flavour profiles and products for supermarkets. I was also responsible for recipe development for the McCormick website and have participated in the creation of the global McCormick Flavour Forecast reports and have recently worked on the resources for the HEIA/McCormick Year 9&10 Schools Flavour Forecast Recipe Challenge.

For 6.5 years I worked in another Senior role at Breville Australia in Sydney Australia, Managing the Test Kitchen and responsible for kitchen appliance product development including instruction book writing, recipe development and product demonstrations.

For 7 years I was a freelance Home Economist working in various culinary positions amongst the best in Australia and Sydney’s food media industry scene from recipe development and food writing to food assisting and food styling to conducting cooking classes and catering for television and magazines. I was also the journalist cook at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Now available for corporate work opportunities. I am ready to work with you and your team to share the love of food.

I invite you to connect with me onLinkedin, Facebook and Instagram.

Get in contact email me : michellethrift@hotmail.com

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