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A Cook's Tour of New Zealand by Peta Mathias
59.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Reading Level: very good
Enjoy a culinary tour of New Zealand and indulge in the very best seasonal produce with popular foodie and bon vivant, Peta Mathias. An astonishing variety of good things grown and produced locally are featured in this A-Z of favourite producers and suppliers. Peta Mathias's extensive knowledge of food ...Show more
Beat Till Stiff: A Woman's Recipe for Living by Peta Mathias
36.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Razor-witted, wise and just a touch scandalous, Beat till Stiff covers topics that Peta considers important, entertaining, naughty or personal. With chapters on why redheads have more fun, how egg whites provide a metaphor for living and how Peta stopped strangling her mother, the eagerly awaited follow ...Show more
Burnt Barley by Mathias Peta
34.95 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
If Peta hadn't known of her Irish ancestry, her love of potatoes would have betrayed it. Peta always connects with a place through its food, and in visiting the country of her forebears she set herself a difficult task. But it didn't take long for Peta to find the world-class restaurants hidden up windy ...Show more
Culinary Adventures in Marrakech by Peta Mathias
52.00 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food | Reading Level: very good
I wake up in the morning and throw the shutters open. It's dawn and the first prayers of the day have just hurled over the rooftops of Marrakech. Breakfast is home-made jam, honey, tea, freshly squeezed orange juice and a basket full of freshly baked, still warm breads - m'lawi, flat bread, pancake and ...Show more
Eat Your Heart Out: Love Stories from Around the World by Peta Mathias
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
In a world of hate, let's serve up some love . . . Peta Mathias has encountered many a lovelorn tale on her gastronomic travels around the world. Searching further, she has unearthed more stories - the heart-warming and heart-rending, the passionate and poignant, the macabre and merry - and in these ret ...Show more
Fete Accomplie by Mathias, Peta
24.95 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
This is an account of the events that led to Peta Mathias, a New Zealand nurse, to open a restaurant in Paris, having risen from dishwasher to French chef. The recipes she cooked during her time in France are included along with anecdotes of the French lifestyle and the characters she encountered.
French Toast by Peta Mathias
29.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
French Toast is a totally pleasurable insight into the sensual delights of France through the eyes and taste buds of Peta Mathias, television personality and food writer. The former owner of a restaurant in Paris, Peta knows how to get the most out of every minute she spends in France. Savour crusty ...Show more
French Toast: Eating and Laughing Your Way Around France by Peta Mathias
35.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
French Toast is a totally pleasurable insight into the sensual delights of France through the eyes and taste buds of Peta Mathias, television personality and food writer. The former owner of a restaurant in Paris, Peta knows how to get the most out of every minute she spends in France. Savour crusty bre ...Show more
Just in Time to Be Too Late: Why Men Are Like Buses by Peta Mathias
36.00 NZD
Category: Self Improvement
In her bestselling guide Can We Help It If We're Fabulous, the irrepressible Peta Mathias shared her thoughts on being a woman. Now, with Just in Time to be Too Late, she turns her attention to what it means to be a man in the 21st century. What makes men cry? Why are bad boys so irresistible? What exac ...Show more
Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard : A Memoir by Peta Mathias
34.99 NZD
40.00 (12% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change. 'I've escaped more houses than I've said Hail Marys.' Peta Mathias has been making major moves since leaving home to train as a nurse, before living in Canada, London and later France ...Show more
Noodle Pillows: A Journey Through Vietnamese Food and Culture by Peta Mathias
29.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Food
Travel with Peta Mathias on a culinary journey through Vietnam, from crowded Hanoi and Ha Long Bay in the north, through the ancient imperial city of Hue and romantic Hoi An in the centre, to the food capital Saigon and the country's bread basket, Can Tho, in the south. Everywhere she goes she walks the ...Show more