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Contributing chefs:

• Neil Perry
• Adam Liaw
• Dan Lepard
• Jill Dupleix
• Karen Martini

Meet the Good Food team

Roslyn Grundy, editor of The Age Good Food Guide. In her spare time she bakes, grows vegetables and wrangles backyard chooks.

1. Last meal on earth
   Marcella Hazan's roast chicken with lemons, Greek potatoes (diced and roasted in olive oil, lemon juice and garlic) and a green salad.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island.
   Garlic, lemon and chillies. Almost everything I cook starts with one of these.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal.
   Fat Freddy's Drop Based on a True Story. There's a reason it's become a cafe cliche.

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Two cups of tea before I am capable of functioning.

5. Fave tipple
   Dry martini. Hold the espresso.

Scott Bolles, Good Food contributor and Short Black editor

1. What would your last meal on earth be?
   WA Marron

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Iggy’s Bread. Vegemite. Anchovies (can’t have too much seafood)

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give it Up

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Coffee, family, Labrador puppy (sadly not in that order)

5. Favourite tipple
   Riesling

Jane Holroyd, Good Food writer/producer

1. Last meal on earth
   Something with loads of spice and chilli - maybe Dainty Sichuan's mapo tofu

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   How long will I be stuck there? Does coffee count as food?

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Not music actually. Let's say the happy buzz of chatter from friends/family

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Homemade muesli with everything but the kitchen sink

5. Fave tipple
   Cold beer! Hot days!

Myffy Rigby, National Good Food Guides Editor, Creative Director of The Sydney Morning Herald's Food and Drink events. When not eating in restaurants for work, she is eating in restaurants for fun.

1. Last meal on earth
   A toasted cheese sandwich with lots of pepper and the right amount of butter made over a campfire chased with a fifth of whisky, shared with my best friends

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Soy sauce, wasabi and ginger - I'm guessing I'll be eating a lot of raw fish, since I can't light a fire to save my life.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Paul's Boutique.

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   The sound of sirens and kookaburras - welcome to Kings Cross.

5. Fave tipple
   A Manhattan on the Rocks with a beer back

Callan Boys, Editor, Good Food Guide Brisbane

1. Last meal on earth
   Barbecue chicken on a soft fresh white roll and pasta salad on the side. An Australian classic and at such a juncture I wouldn't be welcoming any surprises. Unless it was a death row pardon. That would be fine.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Salt for curing, oranges to ward off scurvy and it'll be hot so, I don't know. Maybe some Zooper Doopers.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Pavement, Brighten the Corners.

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Muesli and fruit. This (probably falsely) lets me believe I can eat whatever I like for the rest of the day.

5. Fave tipple
   Fernet Branca and Coke. Preferably in 40 degree heat over an Argentinian grill.

Lee Tran Lam, writer/producer, Good Food

1. Last meal on earth
   Hot chips, pizza (maybe even hot chips ON pizza?) and Messina's tiramisu gelato.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Bread, miso, yuzu - hopefully that combo will go well with my incredibly low-level foraging skills.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   The second Avalanches album

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Toast (and not enough chances to hit the snooze button)

5. Fave tipple
   Yuzu sake (aka karaoke juice), yuzu tea, yuzu everything.

Annabel Smith, writer/producer, Good Food

1. Last meal on earth
   Bucatini carbonara with smoky pancetta and way too much parmesan - hold the cream.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Gin, tonic, mi goreng.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Belle & Sebastian's back catalogue

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Ideally cold carbonara (breakfast of champions), but failing that, a strong coffee.

5. Fave tipple
   Pimms punch with all the trimmings.

Nedahl Stelio, Editor, Goodfood.com.au

1. Last meal on earth
   Fresh prawns with plenty of lemon and a soft sprinkling of pepper.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   I’d take a chicken to collect the eggs. Lemon to eat with the fish I’d be catching. And avocado. Hopefully I could grow some kind of tree from the seed.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   This will change constantly, but right now it’s the Temper Trap.

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Children climbing on top of me. And eggs, cooked in coconut oil, with salt and pepper.

5. Fave tipple
   French champagne. A salty margherita. A good pinot noir. Should I go on?

Terry Durack, Senior Good Food reviewer

1. Last meal on earth
   Yum cha, of course. Har gau (prawn dumplings); char sieu bau (roast pork buns); sieu long bau (soup dumplings); Tsing Tao beer; au tsarp (braised tripe, tendon and turnip); pork and preserved egg congee; wor tip (potstickers); cheung faan har (rice flour rolls with prawn); Tsing Tao beer; fung zao (chicken feet); char sieu (bbq roast pork); pai gwat (steamed pork ribs with fermented black bean); ham sui gok (deep-fried pork dumplings); wu gok (deep-fried taro dumplings); sieu mai (steamed pork dumplings); and Tsing Tao beer.

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Parmigiano reggiano, mortadella and dill pickles.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   David Bowie's Hunky Dory
   Bruce Springsteen's The River
   Justin Townes Earle's Absent Fathers
   Damien Rice's O
   Jakob Dylan's Women + Country

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Having to soak the oats and grate the apple for my bircher muesli (taken with yoghurt, honey, banana, nuts and seeds).

5. Fave tipple
   Gin (McHenry’s from Tasmania) and tonic.

Jill Dupleix, Good Food writer and restaurant critic, and author of 16 cookbooks. But really, I cook so I can sit down at the table to eat and drink and have fun.

1. Last meal on earth
   Grilled lamb chops, mashed potatoes and peas (blame my country childhood).

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Avocado, lemon, dark chocolate.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Either Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony Number 3 or Cat Empire, depending on dance opportunities.

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Lorikeets on the balcony

5. Fave tipple
   Campari and soda followed immediately by Pinot Noir.

Nina Rousseau, Editor, Good Food

1. Last meal on earth
   A roast with all the trimmings (baked sweet potato, royal blue spuds, parsnip, carrots, hot garlic that you suck from its wrapper), an awesome gravy, and maybe even cauliflower ‘n’ cheese. Or maybe dumplings...

2. Three foods you'd take to a deserted island
   Apples. White taramosalata dip. Crackers.

3. Soundtrack to your ideal meal
   Eilen Jewell

4. Every morning I wake up to...
   Family. And a cup of coffee in bed while looking out at the window at our fig and plum trees.

5. Fave tipple
   Probs a White Rabbit (dark) while cooking dinner. Red wine (all sorts). White wine (all sorts). In summer, a gin and tonic in a tall glass with loads of ice and fresh lime clinked with mates in the backyard.