About Charmaine
About Charmaine
Born in Colombo, Charmaine worked as a journalist at one of the city's daily newspapers before immigrating to Sydney with her jazz musician husband, Reuben, in 1959. She became a food writer at Women’s Day, then cookery editor of Belle magazine. She was a regular columnist for The Sun-Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald and later the food editor of Family Circle magazine. Her first book, the South East Asian Cookbook, was published in 1972. Her bestselling work, The Complete Asian Cookbook, has sold millions of copies since its release in 1976 and is still in print. Charmaine has four children and five grandchildren and lives in Sydney.