User:ThePinkCook/sandbox

Bruce Pasco
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-dark-emu-and-the-blindness-of-australian-agriculture-97444

= Maureen Simpson = (born 26 December 1933 ) Cookery editor House and Garden Magazine 1971 to 2001

Early Life
Born as Maureen Smith, grew up in the Sydney Suburb of Ryde. She attended Ryde public school and then Westmead School for Girls

Career
First worked with Bernard King and then went onto a demonstrator with Westinghouse

In 1969 she started work with Australian House and Garden Magazine then published by Murry Publishers

her first book Australian Cuisine was published in 1990.

Australian Cuisine by Maureen Simpson
 * Categories: Australian
 * ISBN: 9780733300745 Paperback (Australia) 10/1/1990

AUTHOR

‘Australian Cuisine, published in 1986 (Methuen Haynes),

(Reprinted 3 times by ABC Books)

‘The 2BL Year of Great Weekends’, published 1993 (ABC BOOKS)

‘Cooking at Weekends’, published 1994 (ABC Books)

‘Comfort Food’, published 1998  (ABC Books)

Awards

The 1989 National Award for Gastronomic Writing for a series,

‘Australia Fare’, published in Australian Gourmet Traveller.

‘Best Food & Entertaining Feature’awarded to ‘Australian House & Garden Magazine’ by The Society of Magazine Editors, 1997 for a food and travel story, ‘A Taste for Adventure’.

Inducted into The Food Media Club ‘Hall of Fame, 1997’

ABC Radio( 1988 to 1998)

Weekly chats about food and recipes each Sunday

with John Hall and Bob Hughes on ‘The Weekend Program’, radio 2BL.

JUDGING

Currently a judge for the Sydney Fine Food Show.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Australian Gourmet Traveller: six articles exploring the diversity of Australian food and celebrating the skills and ingenuity of Australian cooks.

Consumer Leaflet ‘ Don’t Poison the Family’

Draft: Maureen Simpson