Maggie Beer (Australia 2014)

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

Stamp Maggie Beer in catalogues
Michel:	Mi:AU 4063
Stanley Gibbons:	Sg:AU 4113
WADP Numbering System - WNS:	WAD:AU008.14

Stamp is vertical format.

Maggie Beer AM
The idea that the best tasting food is made with excellent ingredients grown nearby and picked in season is so ingrained today that it can seem like something of a cliché. But back in the 1970s, when Maggie Beer and husband Colin bought their property to raise pheasants and to grow some grapes and olives, it was a concept that was on few radars, particularly in Australia’s big cities. One of the earliest local–seasonal exponents, Maggie was an untrained cook, which makes the long-lasting influence of her venture all the more remarkable.

Pheasant wasn’t an everyday ingredient in Australia in the 1970s, and few people knew what to do with it. So the Beers opened a small farm shop in January 1979 and Maggie made pies and terrines, and stuffed, baked and boned pheasant and quail. People arrived in increasing numbers to try the food she was cooking, and within a year the farm shop morphed into a restaurant. It was a simple country restaurant known as Pheasant Farm, yet it was also a ground-breaking restaurant; food critic and writer Stephen Downes says of the restaurant: “[it] distilled our cooking style into its purest essence”. For 15 years punters and critics flocked to the restaurant, drawn by Maggie’s talent for bringing out the best in the produce grown in the nearby fields and paddocks. In 1991, Australian Gourmet Traveller anointed it Restaurant of the Year.

Following its closure in 1993, Maggie focused on her popular food-produce lines. Pâtés, fruit pastes, jams, sauces, verjuice and ice cream produced under the Maggie Beer Products label are now sold both nationally and internationally. She’s also had remarkable success with her cookbooks both locally and overseas – particularly Maggie’s Harvest. Besides this, Maggie was awarded Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in 1997; Senior Australian of the Year in 2010; a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012; and a Doctor of Business honoris causa from Macquarie University in August 2013.

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;