Melissa Leong made her name hosting cooking shows such as MasterChef Australia but her latest TV gig is something different entirely. For the new SBS documentary miniseries The Hospital: In The Deep End, which explores the inner workings of Australia’s health system, the presenter has scrubbed up and been put to work at Sydney’s St Vincent’s hospital.
Before she became a TV star, Leong worked as a food writer, a cookbook editor and food media consultant. But while many of the fooderati who grace this column name expensive knives as their most essential cooking tool, Leong relies on something different in the kitchen: her rice cooker.
