Michael Hodgson

Michael Hodgson has been involved in a range of food related activities ranging from TV through to festivals. He worked for 7 years at Channel 4 in the UK on food programmes including Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and River Cottage. Moving to Australia in 2007, Mr Hodgson started a food festival business that grew to include Taste of…. in 15 countries, arguably the biggest example of the pop-up concept. He also created and launched Margaret River Gourmet Escape that has established itself as one of the world’s leading food festivals in a very short time. Mr Hodgson currently looks after the food strategy for Star Entertainment Group.