Charmaine O'Brien

Charmaine O’Brien was born in Melbourne in the mid 1960s. She grew up enjoying the good plain Anglo cookery of her grandparents and the ethnic food explorations of her mother. After training as a chef, Charmaine’s passion for food took her around the world and into a variety of jobs, including establishing a wholefoods cafe, managing a food and wine educational program, and feeding firefighters.