Dani Valent is one of Australia’s most respected food communicators. She is a longtime freelance journalist and restaurant critic, award-winning cookbook author, host of the popular Dirty Linen hospitality podcast and chief creator at danivalent.com. Her business card says: writer, eater, traveller and cook, and if you could sum up Dani’s ethos in a phrase, it would be “connecting people through great food experiences”. In 2020, Dani worked with chef Ben Shewry to support temporary visa holders through the pandemic via the Attica Soup Project. She is a keen observer of and advocate for the hospitality industry.
