Down on Maggie's farm ; Skye Gyngell travels to Australia's Barossa Valley to track down one of her culinary heroes: the queen of home-grown cuisine, Maggie Beers. Photographs by Lisa Barber

The Independent on Sunday | January 14, 2007| | Copyright

On an overcast Thursday afternoon, I arrived in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. I was hoping for sun, but Australia had been suffering from a prolonged and devastating drought and so it didn't really feel right to complain. Rain, however little, is always welcome here. My mission was to track down Maggie Beer and her husband Colin on the much-loved foodie paradise of Pheasant Farm.

Maggie is someone I have admired for a long time - I own every single one of her recipe books. She is something of an Australian national treasure and is currently appearing in a huge TV series on ABC ...

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