OUR PEOPLE
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Dan Pearson
London-born chef Dan Pearson focuses most of his time on is pop-up restaurant Egg & Spoon. These one-off dining events held in a variety of locations are really exciting, not only because you never...
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Catherine Smith
Editor of the “Life” section of the Weekend Herald, Catherine Smith recalls learning to cut scalloped tomatoes in school Home Economics, “the height of grooviness in 1960s Pukekohe.” She loves...
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Lois Daish
Food columnist at The Listener for some 23 years until her retirement, restaurateur, cookbook author and life member of the New Zealand Guild of Food Writers, Lois Daish has contributed much to New...
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Lois Daish
Grant Allen
When the Herald on Sunday’s food columnist Grant Allen thinks about cooking, he thinks of it as a chance to create an event and provide hospitality. Inspired by his family’s philosophy that there’s...
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Jo Elwin
A young Jo Elwin could be found reading cookbooks on the school bus and delighted in being the ‘kitchen helper’ at her mother’s dinner parties. Now the editor of the NZ Herald’s Bite and still...
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Lauraine Jacobs
“Cooking is the thing that makes me happiest,” says Lauraine Jacobs, award winning food writer, food columnist for The Listener and author of eight cookbooks. While her earliest food memory is...
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Jan Bilton
Celebrated Kiwi food writer and author of 26 cookbooks Jan Bilton’s favourite meal is anything cooked by her husband Michael, with whom she wrote and published Marlborough on the Menu, the 2010 Le...
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Geoff Scott
Ratatouille’s gourmet rodent Remy is chef, restaurateur and Bite and Simply You Living contributor Geoff Scott’s cooking idol, because he “cooks from the heart.” The owner of Vinnies restaurant in...
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Bevan Smith
Simple, clean, fresh and seasonal is how Riverstone Kitchen chef/owner and Bite contributor Bevan Smith describes his cooking. Bevan, whose North Otago restaurant won Cuisine magazine’s 2010...
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