Chocolate Layer Cake

For Dorothy Barker cooking is a little bit like dancing. ‘I learnt to cook by helping Mum. It was just natural, like dancing. I never really learnt to dance, my dad just got us on the floor and we danced,’ she says.

Dorothy grew up in the South Australian Mallee, moving from place to place as a child, with her father working as a farm labourer. ‘After every harvest he used to have to get another job, so after every harvest we had to pack up and move to another farmh