Ian Richard Parmenter OAM is an English-born (b.1945) Australian media professional and author with a half-century experience in newspapers, magazines, television and radio. He presented 450 five-minute programs of the cookery show ''

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'' on the Australian ABC television network. The program was also broadcast in 19 other countries. Parmenter was a journalist in

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, London, before moving to Australia in 1971. He joined the ABC in Perth and qualified as a TV producer in 1974. He developed a culinary flair in private life, having no professional experience in

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. He has also written several recipe collections and three books, listed below. On 26 January 2011, Parmenter was awarded the

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for service to the food and tourism industries as an event director, author, journalist and broadcaster.

Publications

* ''Cooking with Passion'' (ABC Books) * ''Bon Appétit With Ian Parmenter'' (Gore & Osment Publications) * ''Sheer Bottled Bliss'' (HarperCollins) * ''All-Consuming Passions: Recipes Gathered from a Lifetime of Loving Food'' (HarperCollins)

References

External links

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About Consuming Passions and Ian Parmenter
' Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2009 *

' "George Negus Tonight" TV interview, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 3 September 2003 English television chefs English emigrants to Australia Australian television chefs Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English food writers Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia {{Australia-tv-bio-stub