Maggie Beer operated the Barossa Valley's famous Pheasant Farm Restaurant with her husband, Colin, for fifteen years. Since closing the restaurant in 1993, she has established an export kitchen in Tanunda to develop and make products for domestic and international markets. While Maggie enjoyed her years of writing food columns for The Australian and various food magazines, she now chooses to spend her time researching and developing new products and filming the successful ABC TV program The Cook and the Chef.