JOANNA SAVILL
Holding a food event? Got a great chef lined up who's a little nervous about fronting the mike as well as the stoves? Planning a media or food industry function but wanting a host who understands the issues and knows how to keep things moving? Joanna Savill is a warm, relaxed and highly professional MC, moderator, speaker and presenter, regularly seen at food events around town and interstate. Best known as the award-winning co-host of The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia TV series and author of the SBS Eating Guide to restaurants and food shopping in Sydney, she definitely knows her food. In fact she's a borderline obsessive food traveller as well as a prolific writer on the subject. As a "world food" expert and regular writer for Sydney Morning Herald's Good Living section, Travel + Leisure and Australian Gourmet Traveller (among others), Joanna is always tasting, talking about, reviewing and judging food. She's also heard on ABC 702's Weekend program - a 'food correspondent' gig she's had for almost ten years without yet running out of things to say. Joanna hosts, curates and moderates industry forums such as the Taste of Slow and Spoken Word series at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007), or the massive 3-day Tasting Australia Food and Wine Writers' Festival (2005 & 2007). One of the best gigs she's had was to introduce star chef Tetsuya Wakuda to a crowd of adoring French food journalists at the Gourmet Voice food media festival in Cannes in January 2006. In 2004, Joanna was awarded the prestigious title of "Best overall contributor to the communication of food" by the Food Media Club of Australia. Her TV gongs include the Gold Ladle for Best Food Show at the World Food Media Awards 2005 and Best TV Food segment in 2006, at the Vittoria Australia Food Media Awards. Joanna speaks fluent French, Italian and German and prior to being a full-time food lover, travelled the world as a current affairs journalist for SBS TV's Dateline. |
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