Indulge Demonstrators
Those who attended Indulge last year will recall the imformative and entertaining live demonstrations.
This years demonstrations aim to be bigger and better with double the running time at 40 minutes and a full sized demonstration kitchen, supplied by Fisher & Paykel. So come along and see your favourite chef in action.
All recipes from dishes that are created during Indulge will be available on the website after the festival
Peta Mathias is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef, author and broadcaster, who now builds on the culinary travel experience with her gastronomic tours in the South of France, Morocco and India.
Having started off her culinary love affair in Paris with her restaurant 'Rose Blues', she returned to New Zealand ten years later to teach, cook and write 'Fête Accomplie', the first of her eight award winning gastronomic travel books.
'Can We Help It If We're Fabulous?' a book about women, came out in August 2008, and then came 'A Matter of Taste' - a book of photographs of women's accessories made of food. These were followed by 'Just In Time To Be Too Late - why men are like buses' in 2009 and now 'Beat Till Stiff' – A Woman’s recipe for Living.
A selection of Peta's books will be available for sale at Indulge.
Peta will be demonstrating between 8.30pm-9.15pm in the auditorium.
For more information about Peta, visit her site at
http://www.petamathias.com/
Nadia Lim
Nadia Lim is NZ’s 2011 Masterchef. The 26 year old is an Auckland based clinical ( diabetes) dietician and works part time for the Heart Foundation and the Nutrition Foundation.
Her 40 minute pressure test starts at 7.30pm where she will be demonstrating 3 of her punchy recipes.
Nadia describes her cooking as having a healthy twist combined with big flavours. Nadia’s first cookbook is due out in April next year.
