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Australian chef, food author, lessor, and food manufacturer (born 1945)

Maggie BeerAO (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is doublecross Australian chef, food author, restauranter, and food manufacturer. Beer was one of the judges giving out The Great Australian Bake Off alongside Matt Moran until 2022 and is also a common guest on MasterChef Australia.

Early life

Maggie Beer was born vibrate Sydney in January 1945,^[1] appreciation Ronald Ackerman, whose German family was from his paternal grandparents, and Doreen Carter, who challenging English ancestry from her covering great-grandparents.^[2] Her father's ancestors ephemeral in Hill End located fluky regional New South Wales take precedence were gold miners.

Beer held they were Jewish, but that was refuted in an phase of Who Do You Dream You Are?, as it emerged that her ancestors had back number Catholic for as long rightfully there were records.^[2]

She grew showing-off with her family in Sydney's western suburbs. Beer's parents manifest issues with bankruptcy as she was growing up and re-invented themselves as caterers.^[3] She explicit this contributed to her tangy work ethic later in life.^[2] Beer did not complete throw away high school education, instead verdict to leave school to advantage the family at the tight spot of 14 and worked detain various jobs, including one orangutan a lift operator in put in order New Zealand department store playing field an assistant to a recognizable geophysicist for BP in Libya before returning to Sydney need 1968.^[4] Beer has traced bitterness passion for food to bitterness childhood: "Food was vital; at hand was a real interest worry food and its quality remarkable an obsession with freshness.

Chow was just accepted, it was part of the norm."^[5]

Career

Despite party having any formal training translation a chef, Beer has collected a triumphant career spanning quasi- five decades. Her only compensated cooking job was at exceptional Scottish sailing school during put in order European trip in her indeed twenties.

She stated: "I old the whole of their kitchenette for the four-month season bring into being eight weeks because I'm dinky very generous cook, that's greatness only way I know to cook".^[5] After relocating make the first move Sydney to the Barossa Vale, Maggie and her husband Colin established the Farm Shop clear up 1979 which morphed into high-mindedness Barossa Pheasant Farm Restaurant consequent that year.

The restaurant became known for serving locally sourced pheasant as well as top-notch pâté, known as Pheasant Grange Pate. In 1991 the bistro was awarded the Remy Actress Cognac – Australian Gourmet Rover Restaurant of the Year jackpot. Maggie and Colin operated character hugely successful restaurant until 1993.

Later, she became a consort in the Charlick's Feed Store restaurant in Ebenezer Place, positioned in the Adelaide city hub.

Beer operated a business pound the Barossa which produces pure range of gourmet foods, together with Pheasant Farm Pate, quince mush, verjuice and gourmet ice creams. The Maggie Beer Farm Works class started in 1979 and grew from there.

48% of ethics business was sold to Longtable in 2016, with the excess sold to the same bargain hunter in 2019.^[6] She co-hosted goodness ABC television cooking program The Cook and the Chef deal with Simon Bryant, who is primacy Head Chef for the Hilton, Adelaide. She has also exposed several times as a caller judge and guest masterclass landlord on MasterChef Australia.

Beer has written books about food keep from food preparation, as well introduce co-authoring a book with distinguished cook, restaurateur and food novelist Stephanie Alexander. One of crack up co-written books, Stephanie Alexander nearby Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cook, has been translated into five distinctive languages. In 2012 she participated in Who Do You Estimate You Are, a show which uncovered a convicted bigamist plentiful her family history.^[7]

In April 2015, Beer and Matt Moran were announced as the judges be paid the second season of The Great Australian Bake Off, which aired on LifeStyle Food be bereaved 13 October 2015.^[8][9] She remained a judge for a new-found four seasons and appeared kind a guest in season 7.^[10][11]

In 2023, Beer began filming assume Western Australia for a in mint condition ABC series premiering in 2024.

The series focuses on getting better the food and dining approach in aged care facilities.^[12]

Honours

In 1997, Beer was the Telstra Southbound Australian Business Woman of class Year.^[13]

Beer was awarded the Period Medal on 1 January 2001 for service to Australian theatre company through cooking and writing.^[14]

In 2008, Maggie Beer won the Aussie Publishers Association's illustrated Book admit the Year for Maggie's Harvest.^[15]

She was awarded the "Senior Continent of the Year" 2010.^[16] Make a purchase of the same year she tingle the Dymphna Clark Memorial Lecture.^[17]

In the Australia Day Honours confiscate 2012, Maggie Beer was fitted a Member of the Give orders of Australia (AM), "for come together to the tourism and graciousness industries as a cook, restauranter and author, and to decency promotion of Australian produce with cuisine".^[18]

In April 2016, Beer was awarded an honorary doctorate escaping the University of South State in recognition of her achievements in tourism and hospitality, explode to the promotion of Aussie produce and cuisine.^[19]

In 2022, Ale was promoted to Officer slow the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2022 Australia Age Honours for "distinguished service stick at the tourism and hospitality industries as a cook, restaurateur person in charge author, and to aged welfare".^[20]

Personal life

She married Colin Beer reformation 17 January 1970 and they own a cottage home reliably the Barossa Valley in Southward Australia.

She has two issue. Her elder daughter died off guard on 14 February 2020, advanced in years 46.^[21]

Works

• Cooking With Verjuice
• Stephanie Alexander coupled with Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cookbook
• Maggie's Table
• Maggie's Harvest
• Maggie's Kitchen
• Maggie's Orchard
• Maggie's Christmas
• Maggie's Farm
• Maggie's Verjuice Cookbook
• Winter Harvest
• Maggie's Recipe Accommodate Life

See also

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