Lyndey has been a teacher, caterer and café proprietor. She has a great passion for imparting knowledge, especially about her favourite subjects: food and wine.

Associate Food Director and major contributor to BBC Australian Good Food magazine, she appears on Mornings with Kerri-Anne every Thursday on the Nine Network and can be heard on Monday nights on Murray Wilton’s The Good Life on Radio 2GB.

Until recently she was Food Director of The Australian Women's Weekly (for nearly nine years), and co-host of Fresh with The Australian Women’s Weekly for eight years. 

 

She is author of four best-selling cookbooks, including Balance. Matching Food and Wine. What Works and Why, co-authored with Colin Corney, which won Best Food and Wine Writing at the Australian Food Media Awards in 2006.

Lyndey holds honorary positions, including as an RAS Councillor where she chairs the Fine Foods committee, as Ambassador for Australia Day, the Eating Disorders Foundation and Australian Food Media Awards. She is a Past President of both the Food Media Club Australia and Wine Communicators Australia.

She has been reviewing restaurants since 1987 for various organisations and publications. Her no-nonsense approach and facility for presenting seemingly complicated ideas in an easy, straight-forward and entertaining manner has built her a solid career in television, radio and print.

Lyndey conducts a food and wine matching workshop at Sydney Seafood School each program, each time focusing on a different grape varietal, wine style or country.

Lyndey is teaching at Sydney Seafood School on 18 November 2008. View more details >