Guide to the Papers of Cherry Ripe, 1992-1999

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 9388
Creator:
Ripe, Cherry
Extent:
0.96 metres and (4 boxes and 1 folio box)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Cherry Ripe, National Library of Australia, MS 9388, [file number]'.
Availability:
Available
Access conditions:
Permission required for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

Papers relating to Cherry Ripe's writing on food. The collection is composed mainly of drafts of Cherry Ripe's latest book, Ripe enough?, published by Allen Unwin in 1999. It also includes correspondence with the publisher, recipes and related notes, and gastronomic articles. The main correspondents are Foong Ling Kong, editor with Allen Unwin, Rowland Holmes and Glenn Wightman.

The 2001 addition contains correspondence, faxes, cuttings, drafts and proofs relating to the production of Cherry Ripe's first two books; Goodbye Culinary Cringe (1993) and Australia the beautiful cookbook (1995). The main correspondents are her editors Julie Gibbs and Anna Dollard at Allen Unwin and Jane Fraser at Weldon Owen Inc.

Biographical Note:

Cherry Ripe is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. Her books include Goodbye culinary cringe (1993), Australia the beautiful cookbook (1995) and Ripe enough? (1999). She was food columnist for The Australian and has contributed to The Bulletin, Vogue entertaining, Australian gourmet traveller, the Wall Street journal, the Asian Wall Street journal and others. She has given papers at international food conferences and in 1994 she gave the keynote address at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, which had as its theme 'Going Today, Gone Tomorrow? Endangered Foods and Cuisines'. She has won a number of awards including the National Award for Gastronomic Writing (1990), the Kellogg's Award for Excellence in Nutrition Journalism (1993) and the inaugural Phillip Muskett Memorial Prize (1994).

Provenance:

Files 1-10 were donated to the Library by Cherry Ripe in October 1999. A second instalment (files 11-21) was received in February 2001.

Container List:
Box File/Piece
1 1-5
2 6-10
3 11-14
4 15-18
Folio 1 19-21

Indexed terms

Names:
Ripe, Cherry

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn122998).
Conditions Governing Use:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Cherry Ripe, National Library of Australia, MS 9388, [file number]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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