Margaret Fulton burst into our kitchens in 1969, with her burnt orange crockpots, teaching us all how to cook.
Gone was the traditional ‘meat and three veg’ and in its place, Chicken Liver Pât¨¦, Sweet and Sour Pork and Pavlova.
The Margaret Fulton Cookbook, with hundreds of recipes, step-by step instructions and full-colour pictures, was a huge success, teaching a generation of women how to make delicious, economical dishes for family and friends. The era of the Dinner Party was born, with her books selling over 1.5 million copies.
Awarded an Order of Australia in 1983, in recognition of her services to cookery, Margaret was named an Australian Living National Treasure in 2006 by the National Trust and identified in 2009 as one of the 25 Australians who have most changed the nation. Sadly, Margaret Fulton passed away on July 24, 2019, she was 94.
Convinced that Margaret deserved her own musical, writer Doug Macleod (Dogstar, The Clockwork Forest, Fast Forward, Full Frontal) and composer Yuri Worontschak (Eric Bana’s Love The Beast, Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell) teamed-up to put Fulton’s life and creative recipes to the stage.
‘Margaret Fulton-The Musical’ follows the journey of Australia’s original celebrity chef, from humble beginnings to super-stardom, based on her best-selling autobiography, ‘I sang For My Supper’.
See it at the J Noosa on Friday 19 March at 7.30pm. For more information visit www.thej.com.au/margaret-fulton-the-musical/
