Maeve O'Meara
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| Maeve O'Meara OAM | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) North Shore, Sydney |
| 🏫 Education | Bachelor of Arts |
| 🎓 Alma mater | The University of Sydney |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist, Television producer, and Broadcaster |
| 📆 Years active | 1985 — present |
| 👔 Employer | SBS (current) Seven Network (former) |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Toufic Charabati |
| 👶 Children | 3 |
| 🌐 Website | gourmetsafaris |
Maeve O'Meara OAM (born 1961) is an Australian celebrity chef, journalist, producer, and TV personality.[1] She is most known for presenting popular long-running food documentary program, Food Safari and co-authoring the SBS Eating Guides to Sydney and Melbourne between 1992 to 2005.
Early life[edit]
O'Meara was born and grew up on Lower North Shore, Sydney with younger brother, Matthew. Her father was a typesetter and her mother a news reporter. Despite her initial aspirations to be a stuntwoman, she graduated at the University of Sydney at the age of 20 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She travelled the world for the next year where she was part of a nail bombing at Chelsea Barracks in September 1981, though not seriously injured, the force of the explosion caused her to be launched several meters across a road. It was this experience, emotionally described in a letter to her mother, which was ultimately posted to an Australian newspaper. The article's feedback and her overseas experience ignited her passions for multi-cultural journalism.
Career[edit]
Before working in television, in the early 1990s, O'Meara was the food editor for Australian publications, New Woman and Family Circle, and contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald's 'Good Living' Section.
O'Meara was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to the food media industry".[2]
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Network |
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| 1985 — 1987 | The Carleton-Walsh Report | Producer | ABC |
| 1987 — 1989 | Sunday | Nine Network | |
| 1990 | Dateline | SBS | |
| 1996 — 2005 | Food Lovers' Guide to Australia | Host (with Joanna Savill) | |
| 2000 — 2007 | Better Homes and Gardens | Food Presenter | Seven Network |
| 2006 — present | Food Safari | Host | SBS |
| 2010 | Italian Food Safari | Host (with Guy Grossi) | |
| 2011 | French Food Safari | Host (with Guillaume Brahimi) | |
| 2017 | The Chefs' Line | Host |
Bibliography[edit]
| Year | Title | Co-Author(s) | Publisher | ISBN |
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| 1992 | The SBS Guide to Ethnic Eating in Melbourne | Joanna Savill | Random House | ISBN 9781863720168 Search this book on  .
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| The SBS Guide to Ethnic Eating in Sydney | ISBN 9781863722117 Search this book on .
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| 1996 | The SBS Guide to Ethnic Eating in Sydney 1996 | Allen & Unwin | ISBN 9781864480788 Search this book on .
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| 1997 | The SBS Guide to Ethnic Eating in Melbourne 1997 | Colleen Coghlan & Joanna Savill | ISBN 9781864482300 Search this book on .
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| The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney 1998 | Joanna Savill | ISBN 9781864485455 Search this book on .
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| 1999 | Lamingtons and Lemongrass | ISBN 9781864483321 Search this book on .
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| The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney 2000 | ISBN 9781865082486 Search this book on .
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| 2001 | The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney 2002 | ISBN 9781864485455 Search this book on .
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| 2005 | The SBS Eating Guide to Sydney 2005 | ISBN 9781865086965 Search this book on .
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| 2009 | Food Safari | N/A | Hardie Grant Books | ISBN 9781740667616 Search this book on .
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| 2010 | Italian Food Safari | Guy Grossi | ISBN 9781742700007 Search this book on .
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| 2012 | French Food Safari | Guillaume Brahimi | ISBN 9781742702353 Search this book on .
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| 2014 | The Complete Food Safari | N/A | ISBN 9781742708973 Search this book on .
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| 2015 | Food Safari Fire | ISBN 9781743791066 Search this book on .
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References[edit]
- ↑ Hawkins, Joanne (15 September 2012). "Fifty is not a dirty word for five women who are out and proud of turning the Big 5-0". Herald Sun. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ↑ "Ms Maeve Catherine O'MEARA". It's an Honour. 2022-06-13. Retrieved 2022-12-29.
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