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Let me share with you the pleasures and experience gained through a lifetime of working in the world of food. Author of 27 cookbooks, including the best-selling New Zealand Kiwifruit Cookbook (140,000 copies sold internationally) and Marlborough on the Menu (winner of Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards 2010 for Best Food/Wine Guide); food and lifestyle magazine editor (Living Today, The Foodtown Magazine); syndicated columnist, travel writer, restaurant owner — and home cook.

My Mantra is: Real Food for Real People. Please join me for a taste.

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A+ FOR AVOCADOS

May 6th 2025According to my son, there’s not a meal in the house if there isn’t an avocado in the fruit bowl. And he was delighted to discover a new variety, the AvoGrey®, twice the size of a Hass.Read more

FAB FEIJOA CAKE

April 2nd 2025 Read more

RED HOT RED CENTRE

March 18th 2025Michael G. Ryan explores Australia's mystical heart.Read more

TEMPTING TOMATO TREATS

March 9th 2025Small, yellow — and supposedly an aphrodisiac — the first tomato was native to the Peruvian Andes. Over the years it has had many name changes, transformations and descriptions. Few vegetables haRead more

YULE BE SWEET

December 15th 2024“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” Miles Kington, British journalist. Fabulous, flavoursome, healthy, versatile — summer stone fruits andRead more

GOOD ON SAM!

November 27th 2024Award-winning, Marlborough chef Sam Webb, has launched a new venture at Wairau River Wines. Almost a year on from the temporary closure of the Rose family’s iconic Wairau River Cellar Door andRead more

FUN FOOD

November 20th 2024Offer me a selection of interesting finger foods at five o'clock and I'm in heaven. At this time of the year, these delicious little morsels sometimes replace my traditional dinner. Tapas — theRead more

JINGE BELL BAKES

November 5th 2024It's time to fire up your festive baking skills. A rich fruit cake will keep for years and like wine, it often improves with age. Prepare traditional cakes at least one month before cutting. DuringRead more

LAID BACK LUNCHES

October 21st 2024Last weekend I enjoyed a relaxed lunch on a friend’s patio. The sun gods were obliging, the slight breeze was balmy and I realised that summer was just around the corner. Hurray! Laid back lunchesRead more

KIDS’ KITCHEN

September 24th 20241 slice wholemeal bread butter or table spread 2 cheese slices 2 thin slices luncheon sausage or salami 2 capers 1 black olive sprig dill or fennel Place the bread on a plate. Lightly spread withRead more

BURGER BONANZA

August 14th 2024Despite its name, the first hamburger as we know it today, did not originate in Hamburg. In the early 19th century Hamburg butchers did, however, chop steak very finely, combine it with onions andRead more

THE HUNTER’S GOOD LIFE

July 31st 2024An easy two-hour drive north of Sydney, the Hunter Valley is Australia’s oldest wine-producing region, but it is certainly no museum piece. The Hunter is a dynamic wine, food and cultural destinatiRead more

Celebrate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc

$25

Marlborough on the Menu

$25

Jan Bilton's Tamarillo Cookbook

$25

New Zealand Kiwifruit Cookbook

$15

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COOKBOOKS

Celebrate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. From the team that brought you Marlborough on the Menu, Winner 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award for Best Food/Wine Guide. Read More

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