Mark Olive
Aboriginal Australian chef
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Mark Olive (born 1962), also known as the Black Olive,[1] is an Aboriginal Australian chef.
Olive was born in Wollongong in 1962 and is a Bundjalung man.[2] Olive had a cooking segment on the ABC's Message Stick TV series[3] and later got his own TV cooking series, The Outback Cafe. He has released a cookbook, The Outback Cafe, based on the series.[4][1] In 2006 he won a Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment.[5] Mark Olive hosts Australian reality competitive cooking show The Chefs' Line with chef Dan Hong and food writer Melissa Leong.