Cookery writer Margaret Fulton was the food editor of Woman’s Day magazine when her first cookbook was published by Paul Hamlyn in 1968. The initial print run of the Margaret Fulton Cookbook was just 30,000, but it was quickly reprinted and went on to sell more than a million copies.

The cookbook was reprinted in 1969 and further editions were published in 1976, 1980, 1991, 1998, 2004 and 2006. The classic 1968 edition was reissued in 2010 revised, updated and with new photography. Margaret Fulton published many other cookbooks, earning her a place in almost every Australian kitchen. In addition to the original Margaret Fulton Cookbook were the following titles, many of which are no longer available:

*Cooking for Dummies
*Cooking for Family and Friends
*Cooking for Pleasure
*Entertaining with Margaret Fulton
*Fish Dishes
*Italian Cookbook
*Margaret Fulton Baking: The Ultimate Sweet & Savoury Baking Collection
*Margaret Fulton Favourites
*Margaret Fulton Slow Cooking
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Casseroles
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Cream Cakes & Gateaux
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Home Baking
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Ices and Cold Desserts
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Indian Cooking
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Italian Cooking
*Margaret Fulton’s Book of Puddings & Desserts
*Margaret Fulton’s New Cookbook
*Margaret Fulton’s Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z
*Margret Fulton’s Book of Cocktails and Party Drinks
*My Very Special Cookbook
*Restaurant Dishes of the World
*Superb Restaurant Dishes
*The Best of Oriental Cookery
*The Complete Margaret Fulton
*The Encyclopaedia of Oriental Cooking

Margaret Fulton was proclaimed a Living National Treasure and was probably the most recognised cookery writer Australia has ever known. She died in 2019 at the age of 94 but her cookbooks will live on in many an Australian kitchen.