page_title: Mark Olive
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Olive
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Mark Olive working with outback ingredients in Melbourne in January 2008
context_page_description: Mark Olive, also known as the Black Olive, is an Indigenous Australian chef.
  Olive was born in Wollongong in 1962 and is a Bundjalung man. Olive had a cooking segment on the ABC's Message Stick TV series and later got his own TV cooking series, The Outback Cafe. He has released a cookbook, The Outback Cafe, based on the series. In 2006 he won a Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment. Mark Olive hosts Australian reality competitive cooking show The Chefs' Line with chef Dan Hong and food writer Melissa Leong.
context_section_description: Mark Olive (born 1962), also known as the Black Olive, is an Indigenous Australian chef.
  Olive was born in Wollongong in 1962 and is a Bundjalung man. Olive had a cooking segment on the ABC's Message Stick TV series and later got his own TV cooking series, The Outback Cafe. He has released a cookbook, The Outback Cafe, based on the series. In 2006 he won a Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entertainment.  Mark Olive hosts Australian reality competitive cooking show The Chefs' Line with chef Dan Hong and food writer Melissa Leong.
caption: Olive cooking with bush tucker in 2008.
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