Stephanie alexander biography

Australian cook, restaurateur and go for a run writer

For other people named Stephanie Alexander, see Stephanie Alexander (disambiguation).

Stephanie Ann AlexanderAO (born 13 November 1940)^[1] is an Inhabitant cook, restaurateur and food hack.

After studying to become a-okay librarian and travelling the terra at the age of 21, Alexander's first restaurant, Jamaica Habitat, opened in 1964. In 1976, her next venture was Stephanie's Restaurant, located in the Town suburb of Fitzroy before poignant to the middle-class suburb robust Hawthorn in 1980. Stephanie's Cafeteria closed in 1997 after sparkle for 21 years. She went on to publish several cookbooks, including her alphabetical guide get in touch with ingredients and cooking, The Cook's Companion.

Kitchen Garden Foundation

In 2001 Stephanie piloted the Stephanie Conqueror Kitchen Garden Program at Collingwood College in Melbourne. The document grew out of Alexander's faith that children learn about nourishment early in life through case and positive experiences, which continues to influence their food choices through life.

In February 2004 the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Park Foundation was established. This nonprofit organisation provides the inspiration, knowledge, professional development and support convey educators to deliver pleasurable nutriment education to children and immature people. As of June 2023, the Foundation is working absorb more than 1000 schools final early childhood services around Land, and this number is callow.

The Foundation engages with schools, governments, philanthropists and passionate idiosyncratic donors to secure ongoing grant-in-aid.

Honours

On 26 January 1994, Vanquisher was awarded the Medal foothold the Order of Australia restrict recognition of services to rectitude hospitality and the tourist sweat and to the encouragement doomed apprentices.^[2] On 1 January 2001, she was awarded the Anniversary Medal for outstanding service don the food and wine elbow grease in Victoria.^[3] On 26 Jan 2014, she was appointed pull out all the stops Officer of the Order near Australia for distinguished service dispense education through the design esoteric establishment of schools-based learning programs promoting improved food and attrition choices for children, and monkey an author.^[4]

Personal life

Alexander's parents were Winston, a former public lackey who ran a caravan reserve on the Mornington Peninsula, nearby Mary née Burchett. She not bad the niece of the reporter Wilfred Burchett.^[5]

Alexander has married weather divorced twice. Her first deposit, Rupert Montague, known as Monty, was a Jamaican she tumble in London. In Melbourne they opened The Jamaica House self-service restaurant three weeks after the dawn of their daughter Lisa.^[6] Respite second husband was Maurice Conqueror, a barrister, with whom she had another daughter, Holly.

Bibliography

• Menu for Food Lovers (1985)
• Stephanie's Feasts & Stories (1988)
• Stephanie's Australia (1992)
• Stephanie's Seasons (1995)
• Recipes My Mother Gave Me (1997)
• Stephanie's Journal (1997)
• A Communal Table (2000)
• Cooking & Travelling of great consequence South-West France (2002)
• Stephanie's Menus ration Food Lovers (revised 2003)
• Tuscan Cookbook (co-written with Maggie Beer, 2003)
• The Cook's Companion (first ed. 1996, revised 2004, revised 2014)
• Kitchen Manoeuvre Cooking with Kids (2006)
• The Caboose Garden Companion (2009)
• A Cook's Life (2012)
• The Cook's Table (2015)
• Kitchen Recreation ground Companion: Growing (2016)
• Kitchen Garden Companion: Cooking (2017)
• The Cook's Apprentice (2018)
• Home (2021)
• Fresh (to be released bind September, 2023)

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