Presenters
Alan Saunders - Keynote & Moderator
Award winning broadcaster and writer Alan Saunders is host of The Comfort Zone, an ABC radio programme which debates and celebrates the cultural significance of food, design, architecture and landscape.
In 1998, The Comfort Zone was awarded the Adrian Ashton Award for architectural journalism by the New South Wales chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and in 1999 it won the Bates Smart Award of the Victorian chapter.
In 1992, Alan Saunders was awarded the Geraldine Pascall Prize 'in recognition of the distinguished contribution made by the recipient to the cultural life in Australia as a broadcaster and writer on the subject of food and/or wine.'
Alan’s first book, A is for Apple, was published by Reed Books in 1995, and in 1999 he was the author of the extensive introduction to Australian Food: celebration of the new cuisine (Lansdowne Publishing). Alan Saunder's first novel, Alanna, will be published by Penguin in 2002.