Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size On Alice Zaslavsky’s new five-nights-a-week cooking show there is a large working kitchen, decorated in her choices of “soothing” lime, “happy” lemon and spot-colour pink.
The 39-year-old MasterChef alumnus and ABC News Breakfast regular chose these colours because she wants people to feel joyful when they tune in to A Bite to Eat with Alice . Each weeknight at 6pm they’ll be able to watch her make a meal with a different guest, be it a comedian, athlete or musician. Tacked to the refrigerator here on set in Studio 32 at the ABC’s Melbourne Southbank complex is a picture of a chocolate cake with sprinkles drawn by Hazel, the five-year-old daughter Zaslavsky shares with her husband, Nick Fallu, a former osteopath whose job these days is being a dad while also helping to manage the Zaslavsky cooking juggernaut.
Hazel’s fridge drawing was hard won. “She didn’t want to give me a piece of art,” confides Zaslavsky as we wait in the green room for rock star Ella Hooper to come from make-up to film the middle and final sequences of the new show. “Nick and Hazel came in with me one morning on News Breakfast and saw this set.
I said, ‘Hazey, look at this fridge; I need you to draw some pictures for it.’ She said, ‘No!’ Then I realised and said,.