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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
As told to Katie Cunningham

Three things with Nakkiah Lui: ‘I know a lot of information about unsettling, morbid and weird things’

Nakkiah Lui’s appearance on The Cook Up – along with the rest of the show – is available to stream on SBS on Demand.
Nakkiah Lui’s appearance on The Cook Up – along with the rest of the show – is available to stream on SBS on Demand. Photograph: PR

Australia already knows how well Nakkiah Lui can write. Over the past decade the Kamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman has risen to become one of the country’s most in-demand playwrights and screenwriters, helming TV favourites like sketch show Black Comedy and the ABC’s six-part series Preppers.

But as her most recent television appearance proves, Lui also goes alright in the kitchen. You may have caught her last week on SBS Food’s The Cook Up, whipping up lemon myrtle mushrooms alongside host Adam Liaw.

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