The ABC News Breakfast food correspondent is keen to showcase Australia’s changing tastes on her new nightly cooking show.
will never use when talking about her expert subject: “healthy” and “naughty”. So committed is she to changing the language around what we eat, when she cooks a pumpkin lasagne for fellow ABC broadcaster Sammy J on her “chop and chat” series,, she simply calls the dish a “lasagne”, and doesn’t even mention the fact that her guest is vegetarian.
“It’s reflective of the more fluid way in which we’re seeing each other and respecting each other’s diets,” she says. “Gone are the days when people turned their noses up at vegans. There’s a more inclusive way to talk about food. I never say something is ‘healthy’ because then our expectation of flavour goes down. There are no ‘guilty pleasures’, no ‘treats’, because that language sets up negative connotations, and, thankfully, diet culture is well and truly on the way out.
Growing up in Melbourne after her family migrated from Georgia in Eastern Europe when she was five, Zaslavsky recalls her fellow athletes on the satellite squad for the national gymnastics team nibbling carrot sticks for lunch.
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