Yossra AboulFadl, Egyptian-Australian MasterChef cooking contestant, has always had a keen eye for ingredients, and the way that different combinations can create healing remedies. Yet, the 37-year-old’s journey began in a laboratory and not in the kitchen. “I’ve always loved my job as a pharmacist and I find it very rewarding to be able to help people with their day to day problem,” Aboulfadl says. “But then cooking and feeding people is a passion that is growing bigger and bigger everyday.” “Cooking has always been a passion from a very young age. I would always observe my mum cooking in the kitchen,” Aboulfadl, who is also a mother of two children, says. A Sydney resident and a rising star in Australia’s food scene, Aboulfadl says that the search for ‘home’ has been the underlying force in her culinary career. “I have spent 17 years in Australia, and that’s a long time, yet I still think of Egypt as my home, because I believe that home is not where you physically conduct your daily life and it’s not where you go to sleep, it is where your childhood memories were built……
Cooking the Key to Culture: Egyptian-Australian’s Path from Pharmacy to MasterChef Kitchen
August 29, 2019
