Ghanaian born Dorinda Hafner is larger than life. She is a TV presenter, writer, foodie, actor/comedienne, public speaker and happening 'thang'. She is full of 'sass and sauce' and quite impossible to categorise. Dorinda is intelligent, multifaceted, talented and colourful. She's a kaleidoscope of vibrancy and the queen of stage and skillet. Her many performances have varying effects on different people and journalistic praise is just as diverse.

Dorinda's work has generated enormous enthusiasm and critical acclaim in both Australia and overseas including the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Africa.

Born in Ghana, West Africa, Dorinda started dancing from 4 years old until she was 16. She learned traditional forms of performance music and dance. This love of dance often conflicted with her more westernized academic education at Ghana's Methodist Ladies College. Aged 18, Dorinda immigrated to the United Kingdom to train first as an Ophthalmic Nurse then as a Registered Nursing Sister and then as a Dispensing Optician.

In between training, she enjoyed herself in London in the sixties periodically 'moonlighting' in billboard and TV commercials e.g. "Right Guard Deodorant", "Heineken Beer", "Cadbury's", Airlines, Soaps etc, before she eventually married an English psychiatrist and had two children, a boy and a girl.

Moving to Australia in the late 1970's with her husband and two children, Dorinda abandoned her healthcare aspiration to pursue a performance-oriented path. Dorinda's talents and experience as a story teller, performing artist, actor, dancer, writer, public speaker, choreographer and TV Cook have since enriched many Australian and international productions over the last 24 years.

Dorinda has written several books and her food anthropology television programs and their companion books have been hugely successful on Channel 4 in the UK, PBS USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa and many other parts of the world. The TV shows screen in 39 Countries.

Now divorced, Dorinda, the human dynamo divides her time between Australia, the UK and the USA working passionately on many projects.

For her food anthropology series, Dorinda won The Bronze Prize for Best TV program at the World Food Media Awards in October 1997 and again in 1999. The program was further nominated in October 2001.

Dorinda is the author of Five Books and is currently writing another two books for release in 2002.

The Voice newspaper on meeting Dorinda wrote:

"You come away feeling all the better for the encounter."