Liz Egan Age, Wikipedia, Chef Background, Restaurant, Husband, Bio

Name Liz Egan

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB As of 2024, she is around 56 years old. This is estimated from her graduation year, 1980.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Liz Egan is an Australian chef well-known in appearing as a judge in the cooking show My Kitchen Rules alongside Pete Evans, Manu Feildel and Karen Martini. She was also the executive chef for the restaurant “Becco” in Melbourne from 1996 to 2011.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Liz Egan was born in Yarra Valley, Australia. She grew up around food and wine in Wantirna Estate vineyard, which was started by her parents, Reg (father) and Bertina Egan (mother).
Her mother is Italian, and Liz loved her cooking so much that she started helping her mother in the kitchen, just so that she can taste everything!
Egan’s cooking style has been highly inspired by her mom’s Italian background, and her favourite Italian-inspired ingredients are tomatoes, figs, ricotta, and pasta.

Her parents still manage the vineyard along with Liz’s younger sister, Maryann Egan, who went on to receive a degree in wine science from Charles Sturt University. The vineyard specialises in classic varieties such as chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon.
Liz’s first husband was Simon Hartley. The couple had two children together, Bella and Lily. Both the kids studied nutrition in university.
She later got married to David Andrew, but the two have now separated.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Egan finished her Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations at RMIT, Melbourne and started working in a kitchen while still studying.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Liz started her career by working as a chef in a pub in North Melbourne. Her friend owned the pub and was looking for a chef when Liz expressed her interest and started the very next day.
She started her own catering company with a partner in 1986 & the business grew so big in six months that it required its own commercial kitchen. So Liz, along with the same partner, bought the restaurant Onions in Prahran only for its commercial kitchen with no intention of keeping it running as a restaurant, but in the end, they decided to let it run. The restaurant did so well that it was awarded two The Age Good Food Guide chef hats.
After selling the restaurant, Liz opened another restaurant in inner Melbourne with two partners called Becco, which had an open kitchen. Liz counts opening Becco as one of the scariest experiences of her life, as patrons could see her in the kitchen, cooking their meals, which left her feeling exposed!

In 2011, Egan smashed her shoulder badly in a bodysurfing accident. Her youngest daughter, who was surfing alongside her, saved her after realizing what was happening.
After her accident in 2011, her commercial cooking career ended abruptly. Liz has now moved on to donning other roles in the cooking industry, like becoming a judge in the popular cooking show My Kitchen Rules. Other judges, along with her, like Karen Martini and Guy Grossi, were already Liz’s friends from the industry.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Egan’s favourite TV show that inspires her is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage series because of its “nose to tail” approach to cooking.
She does her best thinking and creating in Noosa National Park in Queensland.
In the show, Liz finds it especially tough when it comes to giving criticism to the candidates.

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