Stephanie Alexander's new portrait

The Canberra Times

Much-loved cook and food writer Stephanie Alexander, 83, has for the first time seen her new portrait by Tsering Hannaford displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra

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00:00I think the portrait is really beautiful. I feel it really is me, in a way that has,

00:20you know, it's sort of, as I said before, it's a bit weird looking at a portrait of

00:26yourself where you feel you've really been captured.

00:35How does it feel to have your portrait in the gallery?

00:39Well, I feel very proud. I also feel a bit weird, because here I am, and here I am.

00:48It is an odd feeling, but I can only say that I'm very, very proud of what the Kitchen

00:56Garden Foundation has achieved. Everywhere I go, no matter how big or small the school,

01:04the students are happy, they're all smiling, they all can't wait to tell me how much they

01:09like Kitchen Garden. And my dream is that it should be available for every school in

01:16Australia, so that every kid has the opportunity of being introduced to lovely food and being

01:22together around a table from a very early age.

01:26The patients were terrific. I'm sure they'd done a bit of rehearsing, but that's good.

01:31They were good.

01:32So, we decided that so much changes, it's such a massive thing to undertake a revision,

01:52so I'm in the middle of that.

01:54Wow.

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