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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Sam Well, she's the food and travel writer who Australian

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Speaker 2: Australia has fallen in love with. As one of the

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Speaker 2: new Master Chef judges, I can't look away when Melissa

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Speaker 2: Loong is on the TV screen. Where has she been

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Speaker 2: all our lives? Well, we'll have to ask her because

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Speaker 2: here she is. Melissa. Good morning.

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Speaker 3: The chairp is here, good morning, Hello.

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Speaker 4: How are you well? It's great to have you on

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Speaker 4: the show. I liken you to Matt Preston on the

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Speaker 4: show as the replacement judge because you eat so well

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Speaker 4: and Matt Preston used to eat so well. How do

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Speaker 4: you do it?

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Speaker 1: A lot of practice? I practice every day since multiple.

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Speaker 2: Times practice eating.

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Speaker 4: And for those who are listening, when I say eat

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Speaker 4: so well, it doesn't mean you're necessarily eat healthily. You

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Speaker 4: just the way you eat. You don't get anything on

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Speaker 4: your face, just you take it in like an amba,

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Speaker 4: like Matt Preston used to do well.

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Speaker 3: You just don't want to encour the IRA wardrobe is

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Speaker 3: all I can say. You know, they go through a

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Speaker 3: lot of time and efforts in this looks nice. So

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Speaker 3: we try to make sure that we keep ourselves clean,

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Speaker 3: except for that one time when Jock dropped a dumpling

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Speaker 3: all at all the sources were all over him.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think he'll ever live that down. I

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Speaker 1: think he had to buy a case of beer for

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Speaker 1: someone that day.

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Speaker 2: I love how invested fans are in the show, but

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Speaker 2: it must be slightly irritating as well, because I'm reading

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Speaker 2: this morning after last night's immunity challenge that people are

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Speaker 2: outraged that Laura beat Poe, saying, O Poe was robbed,

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Speaker 2: But you guys are tasting the food, how would we know?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely you know, we judged. We always say this, and

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Speaker 1: it's absolutely true. We judge the food, we do not

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Speaker 1: judge the people. So if the food on the day,

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Speaker 1: if Laura cooked the best plate of food on the day,

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Speaker 1: then Laura wins the community. It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's you know, it's a challenging thing

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Speaker 1: and it is part of our job to convey the

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Speaker 1: accuracy of what we're actually eating. But yeah, it's tough

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Speaker 1: when you're watching something on TV and you can imagine

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Speaker 1: what it might be like. But you know, if we've

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Speaker 1: if we chose Laura, then that means that she was

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Speaker 1: the best on the day that Poe isn't amazing because

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Speaker 1: she absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Is good poet octopus sauce. They all has that food.

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Speaker 2: It did look.

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Speaker 1: She's such a creative cook. And that's the thing is

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Speaker 1: that when when you're down to the fine point, you know,

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Speaker 1: competition is the best of the best, It isn't about

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Speaker 1: who did worse. It's about those very fine shades of

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Speaker 1: distinction right at the top. So it's really tough, and

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Speaker 1: it gets tougher as it gets along for us, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure.

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Speaker 2: As a food writer, have you always I know you've

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Speaker 2: loved food. What kind of cook are you?

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Speaker 1: I look personally, I love to cook very simple things,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I love going out and eating very

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Speaker 1: you know, finely conceived, you know, beautifully put together things.

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Speaker 1: But at home I love sort of more home style cooking,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I cook a lot of my mum's

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Speaker 1: Southeast Asian classics at home all of the time. Or

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Speaker 1: you know who doesn't love a good roast chook and sign,

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Speaker 1: you know, on a cold winter Sunday afternoon or something

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Speaker 1: like that. So for me, it's a little bit more

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Speaker 1: sort of hands on family style getting there and sort

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Speaker 1: of you know, help yourself kind of fair, but it

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Speaker 1: really just depends on who's coming over as well.

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Speaker 4: So do you do you ever crack open the jar

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Speaker 4: of cantong from time to time?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I can't say I've ever cracked open I can of

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Speaker 1: just sad your own thoughts. But you know, I'll give

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Speaker 1: anything a try. I think my email signature says we'll

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Speaker 1: eat anything once, so you know, I have to live

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Speaker 1: to that.

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Speaker 4: What about some tom Piper sausages?

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Speaker 2: If you try those things in the tein heartburn for

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Speaker 2: days you're camping.

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Speaker 1: You know, absolutely, when you're camping, there is a time

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Speaker 1: and a face for tin sausages, and they're usually they're

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Speaker 1: usually somewhere like that, And that's, you know, it's part

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Speaker 1: of the fun of it, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you how you felt when you first

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Speaker 2: got the call up to be the Master Chef judge.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the series is going so well, but at

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Speaker 2: the beginning, that must have been a pretty scary set

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Speaker 2: of shoes to step into.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was, you know, I didn't see it coming.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't something I was gunning for at all. And

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Speaker 1: I was on assignment in Vietnam. I just landed and

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Speaker 1: I'd received a flurry of emails and direct messages and things,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't have any time to think about it

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Speaker 1: because I was about to get on a boat on

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Speaker 1: the Mekong Delta with Chef David Thompson, and so I

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Speaker 1: just sort of handed it all off to my manager

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Speaker 1: and said, could you find out what this is about?

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Speaker 1: And by the time I arrived into non Pen about

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Speaker 1: a week later, she's got of said, oh, you've gone

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Speaker 1: from being on a short list to being the list

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Speaker 1: and they'd like to come and meet you. And I

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Speaker 1: just I sort of thought, Okay, we'll look consider what's

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Speaker 1: going on here. But look, it took a while for

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Speaker 1: me to think about it and to say yes, because,

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Speaker 1: as you say, they it's one of the most beloved

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Speaker 1: food shows in the world in the history of food,

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Speaker 1: and so that's a lot to take in. And I

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that if I said yes, and

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Speaker 1: I'd be absolutely all in and I totally am so.

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Speaker 4: After you practice that, after you practiced your eating style,

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Speaker 4: look at you, Look where you are. Well, Melissa, it's

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Speaker 4: great to see you on the Talk, Eat and Talk.

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Speaker 4: That's that's a big part of it. Master Chef is

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Speaker 4: back Sunday, seven thirty on ten Melissa, thank you for

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Speaker 4: joining us.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thanks so much for having me join the End.

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Speaker 1: Amanda in good Morning at one point seven, Tell you