About Mel
- managing conferences for medical, legal, engineering and other industry associations
Mel Kettle
- managing a team of 6 to run all the events for Microsoft in Australia
- marketing the 2000 Brisbane Festival
- developing campaigns to educate Queensland consumers and businesses about their rights and responsibilities for a heap of different legislation including Liqour Licensing, Fair Trading, buying and selling real estate, introduction agents, product safety and loads more.
I figured there had to be more to life than working for other people and not having enough days off for holidays, to play with my niece, to go out for lunch, to cook, to read, and to do all the other stuff I love to do. After a bit of soul searching, a few alcohol fuelled discussions with my partner and various friends, and the correct alignment of the moon and the stars, Mel Kettle Consulting was open for business!
In case you are wondering, I have a Bachelor of Arts (Tourism Management) and a Master of Business (Marketing) and I am a member of:
My other passions in life are food, travel, food, photography, food, reading, food, listening to music, and {of course} my gorgeous partner Shaun {you thought I was going to say food didn’t you?!}.
I love food. What else is there to say? My adventures with food started when I was a baby. My parents tell me that my first solid food was blue cheese – not sure how true that is, but it sounds pretty good to me. And it’s still in my top 3 favourite foods.
Essentially I love everything about food. From thinking, reading, writing and talking about it, to shopping for it, experimenting with it, cooking it, smelling, slurping, tasting, scoffing, sampling and savouring it.
It won’t surprise you to know that I also write a food blog – The cook’s notebook.
And yes, I took all the photos on this site. Except the ones of me. Well, I sort of took this one below.
Me and Shaun {my gorgeous dish-washer hubby} at the BlogHerFood conference in San Francisco in October 2010.
