26 Facts About Margaret Fulton

Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author and commentator.

Margaret Fulton was the first of this genre of writers in Australia.

Margaret Fulton encouraged international cuisine from places such as Spain, Italy, India and China.

Margaret Fulton was born in Nairn in the Scottish Highlands on 6 October 1924.

Margaret Fulton was a Girl Guide as a child and leader of the Magpie Patrol in Glen Innes.

Margaret Fulton began as a cooking teacher at the Overseas Corporation in 1947 and was later promoted to sales manager.

Margaret Fulton was "partially responsible for the introduction of the pressure cooker to Australia".

Margaret Fulton told the audience that "with more wives and mothers working, speed and ease in food preparation is a 'must'".

Margaret Fulton continued, "Many women have no training in homemaking, and packaged and ready-prepared foods, like cereals, cake, pastry and biscuit mixes, canned and frozen foods, make life easier".

In 1956, over four days, Margaret Fulton provided French cooking demonstrations.

Margaret Fulton began to appear in advertisements in the late 1950s.

Margaret Fulton promoted Johnson's Glo-coat floor polish and Johnson's Pride surface polish from her "well appointed Sydney kitchen" in March 1957.

In 1959, Margaret Fulton told readers she used Sellotape "each week for sticking my hundreds of recipe clippings into reference books".

Prospective buyers of Woman's Day magazine in July 1964 were promised an "8-page liftout" from Margaret Fulton, who was known for her Tuesday cookery class at Sydney's Bistro.

The Margaret Fulton Cookbook was published by Paul Hamlyn in 1968 and was an instant success.

Margaret Fulton returned to the Italian theme with the publication of her Italian Cookbook in 1973.

Margaret Fulton hoped there would be "a chance to see acupuncture procedures in a Chinese hospital".

Margaret Fulton was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours "In recognition of service to the media as a journalist and writer in the field of cookery".

Margaret Fulton was one of the writers who "began serving up Chinese recipes to Menzies' Australia" and, as a result, Chinatown's "few eating houses were seen as a welcome alternative to the spartan cuisine of the times".

In 1998, Margaret Fulton was added to the list of 100 Australian Living Treasures by the National Trust of Australia.

Margaret Fulton had been involved in it with 'Sydney food luminary' Anders Ousback.

In 2014 Margaret Fulton appeared on an Australian postage stamp as part of the 'Australia Post Legends Awards'.

Margaret Fulton had one daughter, Suzanne Gibbs, and two granddaughters, Kate Gibbs and Louise Keats, all of whom pursued careers in food.

Kate Gibbs wrote two cookbooks and wrote a third book about Margaret Fulton's life, titled "Margaret Fulton and Me".

Margaret Fulton supported Keats' food career including by sending her to the Le Cordon Bleu school of cookery.

Keats later studied nutrition at Deakin University and authored five more cookbooks, crediting Margaret Fulton for inspiring her passion for food and cooking.