Stephanie Alexander (Australia 2014)

17 January (Australia ) within release Australian Legends - Cooking goes into circulation Stamp Stephanie Alexander face value 60 Australian cent

Stamp Stephanie Alexander in catalogues
Michel:	Mi:AU 4069
Stanley Gibbons:	Sg:AU 4119

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Stephanie Alexander OAM
Stephanie Alexander first published The Cook’s Companion in 1996. This huge brick of a book is a publishing and cultural phenomenon, considered by many as their kitchen bible. Structured as an incredibly detailed, alphabetised list of ingredients and how to use them, the book has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide and is still reprinted every year. It has also anchored Stephanie Alexander’s reputation and legacy as one of the country’s great food educators.

But while The Cook’s Companion is Alexander’s calling card, she’s been pushing boundaries, learning and educating, writing and exploring her whole life. Her culinary career began in the 1960s, with Jamaica House, which she opened in Carlton, Melbourne, with her then husband, Rupert Montague. Here she founded her reputation for innovative, flavoursome food. But it was later with her highly influential restaurant Stephanie’s that she really established herself as a culinary force.

Post restaurant career and post publishing phenomenon (she has 14 books to her name), Stephanie has embarked on perhaps the greatest crusade of her life: educating primary school children across Australia about food through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. The pilot program began at Collingwood College in 2001, and the federal and state governments have since come to the party, funding schools with $17.3 million in total grants to run the program. There are now more than 400 schools nationwide involved in a program that sees children in primary schools not just growing food but learning how to cook with fresh produce.

The program goes to the root of one of Stephanie’s great crusades, the same one that drove her to complete her “bible”: the desire to break down people’s anxieties about cooking, so that they can live a better, healthier life. Along the way, Stephanie was awarded an OAM in 1994; Victorian of the Year in 2010; and, in 2012, she gained the number one position on Crikey magazine’s list of the most powerful people in Australian food.
 

Also in the issue Australian Legends - Cooking:

• Stamp - Margaret Fulton face value 60;
• Stamp - Maggie Beer face value 60;
• Stamp - Stephanie Alexander face value 60;
• Stamp - Neil Perry face value 60;
• Stamp - Kylie Kwong face value 60;
• Stamp - Stephanie Alexander face value 60;
• Stamp - Neil Perry face value 60;
• Stamp - Kylie Kwong face value 60;
• Stamp - Margaret Fulton face value 60;
• Stamp - Maggie Beer face value 60;
• Booklet - Kylie Kwong face value 10*60;
• Booklet - Maggie Beer face value 10*60;
• Booklet - Margaret Fulton face value 10*60;
• Booklet - Neil Perry face value 10*60;
• Booklet - Stephanie Alexander face value 10*60;
• Booklet - Australian Legends - Cooking - Premium booklet face value 20*60;