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Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer at the Australia Day citizenship ceremony at Commonwealth Park in Canberra.
BornJanuary 1945
Sydney, Australia
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
  • Barossa Pheasant Farm Restaurant, Charlick's Feed Store
Television show(s)
Award(s) won
  • Australian Publishers Association's llustrated Book of the Year
Websitehttp://www.maggiebeer.com.au

Maggie Beer AM (born January 1945) is an Australian cook, food author, restaurateur and food manufacturer.

Early life

Maggie Beer was born Margaret Ann Ackermann in Sydney in January 1945, to Ronald Ackermann, who has German ancestry from his paternal grandparents, and Doreen Carter, who has English ancestry from her maternal great-grandparents.

Career

Maggie and her husband Colin established the Barossa Pheasant Farm Restaurant in 1978 in the Barossa Valley of South Australia. The restaurant became known for serving pheasant (which was raised locally) as well as a pate, known as Pheasant Farm Pate. Maggie and Colin operated the restaurant until 1993.

Later, she became a partner in the Charlick's Feed Store restaurant in Ebenezer Place, Adelaide.

Currently, Maggie operates a business in the Barossa which produces a range of gourmet foods, including Pheasant Farm Pate, quince paste, verjuice and ice creams.

She co-hosted the ABC television cooking program The Cook and the Chef with Simon Bryant, who is the Head Chef for the Hilton, Adelaide. She has also appeared as a guest judge on MasterChef Australia.

Maggie has written several books about food and food preparation, as well as co-authoring a book with noted chef Stephanie Alexander.

She has two daughters, Saskia and Ellie.

Honours

Beer was awarded the Centenary Medal on 1 January 2001 for service to Australian society through cooking and writing.

In 2008, Maggie Beer won the Australian Publishers Association's llustrated Book of the Year for Maggie's Harvest.

She was awarded the "Senior Australian of the Year" 2010.

In the Australia Day Honours of 2012, Maggie Beer was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), "for service to the tourism and hospitality industries as a cook, restauranteur and author, and to the promotion of Australian produce and cuisine".

Works

  • Cooking With Verjuice
  • Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer's Tuscan Cookbook
  • Maggie's Table
  • Maggie's Harvest
  • Maggie's Kitchen

See also

References

  1. "Maggie Beer's Who Do You Think You Are? page". SBS Television. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  2. "Maggie Beer". It's an Honour: Centenary Medal. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  3. "Brooks wins Book of the Year award", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2008-06-15
  4. "Senior Australian of the Year", Retrieved 25 January 2011
  5. It's an Honour: AM

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