Elizabeth Hewson is a master of all trades – she wears many hats and dons many aprons, including a home cook, author, founder and creator of the #SaturdayNightPasta movement, book and product range, entrepreneur, brand-builder, recipe writer, and is columnist for The Weekend Australian Magazine.

Elizabeth’s hunger for sharing food and stories started back in 2013 when she wrote her first book, ‘Moving out…Eating in’, a cookbook for home leavers. Shortly after, she packed her bags for Bra, a small town in Piedmont in Northern Italy. There, she studied her Masters in Food Culture & Communication at the University of Gastronomic Science (also known as the birthplace of the slow food movement). 

During a period of anxiety, Elizabeth found solace in the humble act of making pasta every Saturday night. In fact, she soon established it as her self-care ritual. Slowly, over the years #saturdaynightpasta became a movement and, right across the country, people took to social media to upload photos of themselves making pasta and adding the #saturdaynightpasta hashtag. What followed next was a book, Saturday Night Pasta, recipes and rituals for the home cook, published in October 2020, and a food product range, launched in late 2022, which includes three pasta sauces and two dried pastas. 

Elizabeth was the creative force and brand-builder behind Australia’s leading restaurant group, Fink, including growing and guiding the profiles and restaurants of award-winning chefs such as Peter Gilmore, Quay, Bennelong, Lennox Hastie, and Firedoor. 

Elizabeth loves simple, comforting food that makes the most of humble ingredients - spaghetti tossed with olive oil, garlic and chilli; ripe summer tomatoes and basil heaped on toasted country bread. You can find her preparing such dishes in her home in Sydney’s inner-west, with her husband, and two small children.