Dorinda Hafner

Dorinda Hafner (born 1947) is a Ghanaian-born Australian celebrity chef, television presenter, author, actress, dancer/choreographer, public speaker and writer. She is also an optician and registered nurse.

Hafner was affected by a violent civil war in her country when she was still in primary school. She won a scholarship to the Wesley Girls' Senior High School, Cape Coast, Ghana, where her education taught her more about the British royal family and Europe than Africa and she was influenced by its Methodist ethos. In London she met her future husband, psychiatrist Julian Hafner, with whom she emigrated in 1977 to Australia, settling in Adelaide, she worked as an RN. At that time, there were very few people of African descent in Adelaide, and she was met with a lot of misunderstanding, and mostly "just annoying and stupid" discrimination rather than deliberate racism.

She worked as a television chef and presenter with Bert Newton on Good Morning Australia for ten years. 1997: South Australian State Ambassador for Australian Citizenship Week A Taste of Africa (several editions, from 1993) I Was Never Here and This Never Happened:: Tasty Bits & Spicy Tales From My Life (1996) Dorinda's Taste of the Caribbean (1996) United Tastes of America (3 editions, 1997-8) Honey I shrunk the chef (2012)