Television chef, author and artist Peter Russell-Clarke is most famous for his cooking show Come and Get It which aired on ABC television during the 1980s. Loved for his 'G-day' catch-phrase and penchant for swearing, the hirsute, neckerchief wearing chef became one of Australia's first televisions chefs. This clip is from Eyewitness News in 1981, before Come and Get It appeared. It's part of our 80s curated collection: dive in for more glimpses of fashion, music, technology, film, television, r

Peter Russell-Clarke's ‘Come and Get It’ show, which screened on the ABC for nine years, was like 1980s TikTok: each a juicy five-minute bite focusing on ingredients, farm-to-table philosophy, interviews and a cooking demonstration, all driven by a host so joyful he couldn’t stop chuckling. Russell-Clarke was an artist as well as one of our first celebrity chefs. He spent some of his childhood on the streets in Melbourne, foraging scraps from the Victoria Market and from restaurants’ discards. H

Happy World Egg Day from Peter Russell-Clarke and Martha! One of our first celebrity chefs, Russell-Clarke had his own show on the ABC, the bite-sized ‘Come and Get It’. He also appeared in a series of ads for the Victorian Egg Board, intended as a counterweight to studies that claimed eggs caused high cholesterol. This ‘Family Planning’ ad, featuring a live chicken, perfectly encapsulates the elements that made Russell-Clarke a hit. There’s the jocularity, the out-of-nowhere chuckle, the low-ke

'Butter tastes better!' In 1978, Australian TV chef Peter Russell-Clarke acted as a popular spokesperson for the Australian Dairy Corporation. NAA: B6547, 1232284 | National Archives of Australia

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