Ian Parmenter
{{Short description|British chef (1945–2024)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}}
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| name= Ian Parmenter
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| birth_name =Ian Richard Parmenter
| birth_place =London, England, United Kingdom
| birth_date = 24 July 1945
| death_place =
| death_date = 13 April 2024 (aged 79)
| occupation= Television chef, author
| known_for = Consuming Passions (TV series)
}}
Ian Richard Parmenter, OAM (24 July 1945 – 13 April 2024)[https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/obituaries/view/parmenter-ian Parmenter (Ian Richard)] was an English-born Australian media professional and author with a half-century experience in newspapers, magazines, television and radio. He presented 450 five-minute programs of the cookery show Consuming Passions on the Australian ABC television network. The program was also broadcast in 19 other countries.
Life and career
Parmenter was born in London, England after the end of World War II, his father was a brewer and his mother was a housewife. He moved to Belgium aged nine with his family, where he learnt cooking from a Belgian housekeeper with his first dish being their style of chips. He attended a Montessori school in Belgium before boarding in England at King's School, Rochester, where he was expelled for partying. He became a journalist in Fleet Street, London, before moving to Australia in 1971. He joined the ABC in Perth and qualified as a TV producer in 1974. He developed a culinary flair in private life, having no professional experience in foodservice.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/passions/about.htm|title=About Consuming Passions|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223094110/http://www.abc.net.au:80/passions/about.htm|archive-date=23 February 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s938742.htm|title=episode 9: Ian Parmenter|work=George Negus Tonight|date=3 September 2003|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030924024424/http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/people/Transcripts/s938742.htm|archive-date=24 September 2003}}
Parmenter also wrote several recipe collections and three books, listed below. In 1999 he moved to the Western Australian town of Margaret River, where he had purchased a cottage shortly after Consuming Passions first aired.{{cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-15/consuming-passions-host-ian-parmenter-dies/103708514|title=Ian Parmenter, chef and host of ABC TV's Consuming Passions, dies aged 79|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|date=15 April 2024|access-date=15 April 2024}}
In the 2011 Australia Day Honours, Parmenter was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the food and tourism industries as an event director, author, journalist and broadcaster.{{cite web|title=Ian Parmenter OAM|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1143769|publisher=Australian Honours Database|accessdate=27 January 2011}}
Publications
- Cooking with Passion (ABC Books)
- Bon Appétit With Ian Parmenter (Gore & Osment Publications)
- Sheer Bottled Bliss (HarperCollins)
- All-Consuming Passions: Recipes Gathered from a Lifetime of Loving Food (HarperCollins)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|4464787}}
- {{discogs artist|Ian Parmenter}}
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Category:English television chefs
Category:English emigrants to Australia
Category:Australian television chefs
Category:Writers from Perth, Western Australia
Category:People from Margaret River, Western Australia