The Cookbook is from the MasterChef Series 2 which became compulsory viewing for Australian households, with over 4 million people tuning for the final episode. Over the course of fourteen weeks, we watched the contestants cook their way through signature dishes, pressure tests, mystery boxes and invention tests. Now here¡äs your chance to cook and taste the dishes that enticed, thrilled or just plain baffled you with their brilliance. From university students, farmers, tradespeople, teachers and stay-at-home mums and dads to doctors, lawyers, engineers and accountants, they all applied with one common ingredient ¨C their love of food. From 8000 applications, they were eventually whittled down to just 50 people. This group of gourmands battled it out to take a place in the final 24. Over 14 gruelling weeks of cooking challenges, one person was eventually named as Australia¡¯s new MasterChef ¨C Adam Liaw. Three iconic figures once again took up their exalted role as judges ¨C award-winning and respected chefs and restaurateurs Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris, and one of the world¡¯s most acclaimed food critics Matt Preston. Individually, the judges¡¯ successes are astounding. As a group, their experience, advice and mentoring to a group of home cooks determined to be up there with the world¡¯s best chefs, is nothing short of inspirational. A cheeky smile fromGary, an uplifting comment from Matt, and a second spoonful of a dish from George means everything to a MasterChef Australia contestant. The MasterChef dream is one where ordinary Australians can have their cake and the icing too. The judges are putting their own reputations on the line to mould the best chefs they can, but make no mistake, the pressure to achieve that dream can reach boiling point. In Season Two of MasterChefAustralia, the challenges were be bigger, the expectations higher and the competition more intense. From incredible challenges aboard a P&O cruise ship, to time-pressure challenges with mystery boxes filled with exotic ingredients, cooking challenges against world renowned chefs, to tasks that tested their cooking creativity, it was an apprenticeship into the fiery world of cooking that certainly wasn¡¯t for the faint-hearted. MasterChefAustralia: The Cookbook ¨C Volume 2 will be released just in time for Christmas¡ So here is your chance to cook and taste the dishes that enticed, thrilled or just plain baffled you with their brilliance
