Liz Egan (OL 1980)
Judge on My Kitchen Rules 

Former Co-Owner and Executive Chef at Becco

Liz Egan has over 20 years experience as a chef and restaurant owner and most recently has been gaining fans with her frank advice and feedback as guest judge on Seven's smash series My Kitchen Rules.  

Liz grew up on Wantirna Estate vineyard in the Yarra Valley, surrounded by wine and food. Her mother is Italian and a wonderful cook, and she quickly learnt that the best way to ensure she got to taste everything she cooked for their numerous family dinner parties was to help in the kitchen. 

After working in commercial kitchens almost by accident, Liz moved on to form a catering company that ended up as Onions, a highly regarded restaurant in Melbourne's east. Onions was successfully developed into a Two Chef's Hat venue and that recognition still counts as her proudest career moment. 

Liz appears regularly in culinary publications such as Vogue Entertaining, Gourmet Traveller, Delicious Magazine, Taste in the Herald Sun and Epicure in The Age. She was executive chef and co-owner of Becco in Melbourne until 2012. Under her leadership Becco was consistently awarded a Chef's Hat rating from The Age Good Food Guide every year since it opened.