Australia's first celebrity chef Margaret Fulton dies at 94 - after revolutionising the way we eat with her must-have cookbooks
- Margaret Fulton's books are on kitchen shelves across the country
- The iconic author died aged 94 on Tuesday and her family are in mourning
- Among the chef's most famous work is the 1968 Margaret Fulton Cookbook
- In 2006, she was named as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever
Australian cookbook writer Margaret Fulton has died aged 94.
The iconic author, whose books are on kitchen shelves across the country, is considered Australia's first celebrity chef.
Her granddaughter Kate Gibbs, also a chef, said the family are in mourning.
Australian cookbook writer Margaret Fulton (pictured in 2009) has died aged 94
Margaret Fulton arrives at the InStyle and Audi Women of Style Awards in 2012 with her granddaughter Kate Gibbs
'The family of Margaret Fulton are today mourning the loss of their loving, inspirational and treasured mother, grandmother and great-grandmother this morning,' she said.
'Respect for their privacy at this time would be greatly appreciated.'
Fulton was born in Nairn, Scotland in 1924 before her parents emigrated to Glen Innes, New South Wales when she was three.
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She began as a cooking teacher at the Overseas Corporation in 1947 and was later promoted to sales manager.
In the 1950s she made a name for herself as a professional chef, featuring in a May 1956 edition of Women's Weekly after putting on a four-day demonstration of French food in Sydney.
Fulton encouraged post-war Australia to experiment with food after many had got used to a simple diet of meat and vegetables.
Fulton is pictured here with her granddaughter Kate Gibbs who said she was mourning the death
Margaret Fulton (right) and Kylie Kwong (left) pose alongside Marie Bashir in 2014 at the launch of a new Australia Post stamp
Fulton, described as 'Australia's original domestic goddess', also served as food editor of Women's Day magazine. She is pictured during an appearance on Masterchef
She introduced flavours from Italy, France, Greece and China and told readers how to be creative with ingredients.
In a 1997 television interview, Fulton said: 'I think Australians responded to this enormous excitement that I was feeling about food and they were feeling it too.'
The star chef produced 20 books including the 1968 Margaret Fulton Cookbook, which sold around 600,000 copies by 1978 and 1.5million by 2019.
In 1983 she published the Encyclopaedia of Food and Cookery and in the same year won the Medal of the Order of Australia for her services to the culinary industry.
Fulton, described as 'Australia's original domestic goddess', also served as food editor of Women's Day magazine.
At her 93rd birthday last year, she said: 'I've been showing women how to bake a scone and keep a man - yes, that comes into it because it's all part of life.'
In 2006, she was named as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever.
Tributes flooded in on social media after the news of Fulton's death.
Fans called her 'an Aussie icon' whose books 'grace our bookshelves.'
Accomplished food writer Kate Gibbs has based her most recent book, Margaret and Me, on the lessons she learnt from the 'matriarch of Australian cooking'- Margaret Fulton
In 2006, Fulton (pictured in 2002) was named as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever
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