Insatiable

Published by Random House (NZ) Ltd, 2000
(out of print)

During her colourful career as a chef and food lover, Peta Mathias has revelled in the primary produce and enticing dishes of many countries, as diverse and evocative as France, Brazil and Ireland, to name a few. She has collected numerous recipes over the years, exotic and local, simple and complicated, and she shares the very best in this book. These are the ones she has returned to over and over again. They are distinctive for their good flavours, texture, fresh ingredients and sound method of preparation. Peta doesn't believe in fast food, short cuts or using inferior produce. These recipes are too special for that, they're the 'culinary blood, sweat and tears' of her life. The ones she has 'loved to, wept over, travelled with, taught, filmed on television and cooked for friends and family'. Quite simply, Peta is an insatiable cook.