Matt Preston

About Matt

Matt Preston is an award-winning food journalist, cookbook author and television personality. He was a judge on MasterChef Australia from 2009 to 2019, across eleven seasons, and in 2022 joined the twelfth season of Seven Network's My Kitchen Rules as a judge and co-host alongside Manu Feildel. He presented Saturday Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne from 2022 to 2024, and contributes regularly to Stellar, delicious, and taste.com.au. He has appeared on Network Ten's The Masked Singer and competed on Dancing with the Stars. He won Le Cordon Bleu's Food Journalist of the Year in 2008 and the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent in 2010. He is the author of several cookbooks and of the 2023 memoir Big Mouth, and actively supports the food rescue initiative SecondBite as well as hospitality training for marginalised communities.

Matt's profile spans multiple media formats and multiple decades — and the consistency across all of them is a genuine enthusiasm for food, for the people who make it, and for the stories it carries. His support for SecondBite and hospitality training for marginalised communities reflects a commitment to food that goes well beyond the entertainment of good eating.

For food industry events, media and communications conferences, corporate hospitality, and occasions calling for a personality who is genuinely well known and genuinely knowledgeable, Matt Preston brings the full weight of a career built at the intersection of food, media, and public life. He is an experienced and engaging presenter whose warmth, humour, and depth of knowledge make every event richer for his presence.