Consuming Passions was a cooking show broadcast on ABC

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History

The show was hosted by British

United Kingdom

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 chef

Chef

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 Ian Parmenter

Ian Parmenter

Ian Richard Parmenter OAM is a London-born Australian celebrity chef, winemaker and author who presented 450 five-minute programs of the cookery show Consuming Passions on the Australian ABC television network. The programme was also broadcast in many other countries.Parmenter was a Fleet Street,...

. Consuming Passions was first aired in 1992. The show was then sold to many countries including United Kingdom

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, Singapore

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 and Ireland

Ireland

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. Ian Parmenter won the Presenter's Award at the Festival de la TÈlÈ Gourmande in France

France

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. In 1996 Consuming Passions was awarded the Lucien Barriere Grand Prix, considered to be the major prize at the Festival de la TÈlÈ Gourmande.