CHERRY RIPECherry Ripe is an awarded food writer, journalist, broadcaster and author of five books including Goodbye Culinary Cringe (1993, second ed. 1996) and Australia The Beautiful Cookbook (1995) and Ripe Enough? (1999). Since 1990 she has written for the national newspaper, The Australian and has also contributed to many other publications from The Observer in London, to The Wall Street Journal in New York. She was also the most regular contributor to ABC Radio National's Food Program during its nine year lifespan (1988-97). Cherry has given papers and keynote addresses at international food conferences, including the keynote address at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in 1994, which had as its theme Going Today, Gone Tomorrow?- Endangered Foods and Cuisines. Her keynote - Dying of Starvation in the Supermarket - on agricultural biodiversity - was described in the Wall Street Journal as a "blockbuster". The founder of the Slow Food Movement, Carlo Petrini has credited that paper with influencing him to turn Slow Food towards championing agricultural biodiversity. Her hour-long documentary on ABC Radio National about Prince Charles' organic farm at Highgrove, won The Vittoria Food Media Club award for "Best Food Investigative Journalism" in September 2006. |
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