Services Offered by Kate McGhie

The Writer:

Kate is an award-winning food and travel writer. Her column In Melbourne’s biggest selling newspaper, The Herald Sun, reaches an estimated 1.5 million readers each week. The latest jewel in her culinary crown is ‘Cook’, a stylish and sophisticated cookbook that carries hundreds of her favourite recipes. Like its author, the book has a down-to-earth approach to cooking, spiced with lots of wit and humor.

The Public Speaker:

Kate, whose life is all about food, is a traveller as well as a raconteur. This delicious cocktail has made her a popular fixture on the lecture circuit. She has presented a TV series in Canada, ‘The Great Australia Bite’, and also lectures at hospitality colleges throughout the country. Her latest foray onto television was as presenter of Channel 9’s ‘Melbourne’s Gourmet Secrets’.

The Gastronomic Guide:

This is an opportunity for those with a spirit for adventure to explore the culinary treasures of Australian cities and regional areas. In recent years Kate has been designing programmes for international travel and food writers to locate the real pulse of Australian cuisine and hospitality. Owing to popular demand, these culinary forays are now available to Australians as well as international visitors. For more information, contact

The Conversationalist: Tasting Tables®

This is a ‘must do’ for lovers of good food and better conversation. You can join Kate in her Melbourne studio where there will be an eclectic mix of food artisans, academics and the occasional international expert on food and wine. You will enjoy the sensual delights of fine food, the stimulation of fine company and the intensity of fine learning.  For more information, contact

The Traveller: Tasting Tables®

Kate has travelled the world and continues to seek out lesser known culinary temptations and now you too can join her on trips to some of the exotic countries whose food and flavours have influenced her recipes. You can choose from a private palace in Morocco, a 13th century palazzo in Venice or summer farm high above Norway’s fjords.

Not all her sojourns are so far afield. She can also take you to some of Australia’s hidden culinary enclaves for true palate pampering.

The success of these tours has been built on a foundation of communication and personal connection, enhanced by the coziness of the groups – a maximum of 10.