“My job involves sharing food and the stories behind the plate, in part...” — Melissa Leong Quote

My job involves sharing food and the stories behind the plate, in part, via social media.

Whether your childhood roots lie in the city, the country or possibly more crucially in the neighbourhood suburbs of this wide brown land, a trip to the milkbar with your friends has long been a beloved rite of passage when it comes to growing up in Australia.

Almost everyone who loves to cook has at least one recipe handed down to them from a member of their family or community, and those kinds of recipes represent generations of cooking, testing, adjusting and evolving, so you know they're killer.

It seems like our first food memories, no matter how unpleasant, often end up making their way into our hearts anyway.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

A typical day for me involves a lot of meetings.