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Chef Mel Makes Cooking More Enjoyable and Accessible Through her Cookbook Culinary Quickies

The cooking industry has always been known as one that is filled with passionate people whose creativity oozes from the food that they create. Over the years, the industry has become truly more competitive as more and more chefs are rising to create their own out-of-this-world dishes. But if anyone truly stands out from the competition, it is Chef Mel, better known as The Happy Chef. 

Melanie Alafaci, often known as Chef Mel, is the founder of the famous Vanilla Zulu Cooking School in Brisbane. She makes cooking fabulously enjoyable with a whole new and fresh approach to the craft as well as her own gourmet jargon. She is an expert at making Australian and foreign cuisines, and her "Zulu" origin inspires her to give her food a "wild" and adventurous touch, with a dash of African flavor on her platters. 

The Happy Chef enjoys imparting basic cuisine knowledge to her Vanilla Zulu participants while ensuring that everyone engages fully in the cooking process. Chef Mel is enthusiastic about teaching foodies how to flourish in the kitchen. With a smile that can light up a room., she promises the kitchen will become a happy place for those learning from her. 

Chef Mel is known for teaching foodies 'cheffy' tactics and dishes, as well as how to deliver each meal so that it appears elegant but cost-efficient. She can make ordinary meals appear spectacular and get you a standing ovation every time you cook dinner. 

Melanie was given the name "The Happy Chef" by her close students and has carried it ever since. The chef and trainer's motivation comes from a profound love for her work and the people she gets to work with. While being a mother of two, Chef Mel is also a highly dedicated businesswoman. She has a lot on her plate, but food is her passion, pushing her to find more significant and better ways to inspire people who are uninspired in the kitchen. She gets energized whenever she sees lives being changed by sharing her passion for cooking. "It is not difficult to smile when you love your job and your career as much as I do," shares the chef.

The acclaimed chef is also a published author with her latest cookbook, Culinary Quickies, a chef's secret for being faster, happier, and more confident in the kitchen. It will upskill any gourmet from any background and help them live happily in their kitchens, with specific attention paid in each recipe to what deficits to look out for, what hints and suggestions to fix potential disasters, and food design and presentation ideas. 

In her book, Chef Mel also reveals her strategies for shortening her recipes. Her goal is to make cooking as simple and straightforward as possible while helping people achieve outstanding masterpieces worthy of photographs and acclaim. Mel and her many students can now achieve that by employing several essential 'cheffy' tactics with pure mastery and style.

As the Happy Chef grows her different platforms, she looks forward to drawing more foodies looking for fresh inspiration in their cooking journey. In addition, she wants to attract more people who want to learn all her shortcuts and be more lazy and efficient in their kitchens.

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