Dell Linneweber knows more than the average home cook about sugar. In between raising seven children, she has worked on and off as a chemist at the Proserpine sugar mill since 1963, analysing sugar and sugarcane in all its various forms.
Dell was raised in the bush on a cattle property near Duaringa on the Dawson and Fitzroy rivers, about 100 kilometres east of Rockhampton in Queensland. In 2013 her mum, Beryl Hamm