All I ever wanted to do was cook. When I left school, I got a job conducting cooking classes, and in 1969, I was poached by The Australian Women’s Weekly to be in charge of their test kitchen. It was really different, but great fun.
We weren’t doing cookbooks when I first started, then in 1970, we put out a hardback book using recipes that were printed in the magazine. That was incredibly successful.came out in 1980, but it was about two years in the making. The idea had been brewing for quite some time. I had a child so I’d see cakes at birthday parties, and I also made cakes for kids around the neighbourhood. I said to my boss, “We should think about doing a kids’ birthday-cake book.” It was met
