Anushka Zargaryan is a contestant on MasterChef Australia Season 11. She is placed 6th.
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For Anushka, food has no language, and it’s a joy she embraced moving to Australia nearly 20 years ago. Relying on food channels when she arrived, she realised she could follow the necessary ingredients and steps in a recipe, without understanding the language.
Determined to embrace the lifestyle change, Anushka later went to language school and completed a small business management course to improve her skills.
The work paid off, and Anushka remained busy over the years with both her own optometry practice and a coffee shop near home.
It was a long way from Armenia, where Anushka was born as one of five children. She married husband Arthur before graduating from university in 1991 with a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural and Educational Work. She soon welcomed son David and daughter Lilit, and it was ten years later that Arthur’s work as an airline engineer relocated the young family to Melbourne.
Like many MasterChef contestants, Anushka’s passion for cooking began in her childhood. She started cooking classes at school at the age of 10, and still recalls the first green and white flowered apron her grandmother made her to proudly wear. Growing up dining on Iranian, Russian and Armenian food, Anushka describes her own food style as a fusion of those cultures, and says she loves the technical challenge of cooking desserts, describing it as a creative outlet when working with sugar.
Anushka says she’s mentally strong, and not concerned she’ll struggle to take criticism from the judges in the kitchen. When she’s not cooking she enjoys spending time with her children, while also embarking on mission trips to Cambodia and East Timor and volunteering for a local Ukranian nursing home. She says giving elderly people a moment of joy and happiness really highlights what matters in life.[1]
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Anushka Zargaryan on Instagram