Kitchen fires, emotional jam and a go-to seduction dish. Ahead of her appearance at the Auckland Food Show , MasterChef Australia’s contestant-turned-judge Poh Ling Yeow answers Kim Knight’s burning culinary questions. Poh Ling Yeow is a Malaysian-born Australian cook and artist who used to call herself Sharon.
She was, for a few years, Mormon. She was, for more than a few years, married (twice). One of her ex-husbands married her best friend.
She came second in the first and 12th seasons of MasterChef Australia . She returned, this year, as a co-host and judge. And, if you’ve read even half of one of the many (many) interviews about the life of Poh, you already know all of this.
“I’m seriously putting a stop to those,” she says. “It’s starting to get really boring ..
. that’s been written about 1000 times already, you know?” I do. And that’s fine, because I’m on the phone ahead of her whistlestop appearance at the Auckland Food Show with the truly big questions: kitchen implements she can’t live without? Chocolate or lemon? Etc.
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