Guts A Memoir of Food Failure and Taking Impossible Chances

ISBN: 9781922616760
Publication date: 01/10/2025

'Leong serves up her raw, vibrant truth. Now that takes real guts.' -Kylie Kwong
'Utterly delectable' -Narelda Jacobs
'Melissa Leong is an Australian culinary and cultural treasure.' -Ronny Chieng


Gold Logie-nominated TV personality and food icon Melissa Leong bites down on her demons in this searing memoir, exploring themes of abuse in the hospitality industry, racism, mental health and, for a light palate cleanser, the thrill of mouth-wateringly memorable food. Most of all, she inspires the courage to create a life you really, really want.

From Melissa Leong (aka fooderati) - the first female judge of MasterChef Australia and Dessert Masters, fashion obsessive and self-confessed contrarian - comes an evocative, sharp, darkly funny and often brutal account of what it's like to try, fail and scrape together the confidence to try again. She invites you to consider your own limiting self-beliefs ... and give them the finger.

Pages: 336
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Author: LEONG, MELISSA