Justine Schofield Travels from Sydney, NSW

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Justine Schofield brings a youthful energy and touch of French flair to everything she does. A poster girl for today’s busy, motivated career woman, she is the host of popular daytime cooking show ‘Everyday Gourmet’ on Network 10. She also hosts cooking and travel series, Justine’s Flavours of Fuji, Outback Gourmet, Tropical Gourmet in Far North Queensland, New Caledonia, Macau, Barossa Valley with Malaysia and France series airing in 2024. She appears all over Australia at top food festivals and events. 

Justine has published five cookbooks - Simple Everyday, The Weeknight Cookbook, and The Slow Cook, Dinner with Justine and Cook Ahead

Justine is the poster girl for today’s busy, motivated career woman. Between filming her daily food show, ‘Everyday Gourmet’ on Network Ten and her cooking and travel series; she doesn’t have much free time. Yet somehow, she manages to appear at food events all over Australia and work with various charities. A fan favourite of ‘MasterChef’ series one, over a decade on Justine has well and truly established herself as a familiar and well-respected face of the Australian food and media industry.

Bilingual Justine inherited a passion for French cuisine from her mother and a 'roll up your sleeves and get stuck in attitude' from her Aussie father. An accomplished cook in her own right, Justine’s mother taught her about the pleasures of food and ‘joie de vivre’ from a young age. After completing a diploma in hotel management and deciding it wasn't for her, Justine set out to explore her two passions: travel and food.

When the opportunity to enter the first ‘MasterChef’ series presented itself in 2009, Justine's skill level and ability to stay calm under pressure carried her through the gruelling audition process. Once the competition began, her cheeky ‘give it a go’ personality combined with her extensive food knowledge and resourcefulness blew the judges away.

After ‘MasterChef’ wrapped, she began turning her passion for food into a full-time career. The first series of ‘Everyday Gourmet’ aired on Channel Ten in 2011, and she’s just wrapped filming on Season 15 of Everyday Gourmet—making it one of the longest-running cooking shows on Australian television. The brand continues to go from strength to strength, with two new travel specials, Everyday Gourmet: Hong Kong and Everyday Gourmet: New York both on SBS Food scheduled for late 2025 and early 2026 respectively. Justine’s knack for simplifying classic dishes for the time-poor home cook made it very popular with viewers.