Colour Me Happy – Peta's Style Saviours
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Check out Peta on the cover of the New Zealand Woman's Weekly 9 June 2014.
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India in 2014
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I first visited India in 2005 when I filmed documentaries on tea and spices for TVNZ. Subsequently, I was lured back by Robyn Bickford and Manav Garewal — who had become managers of the five-star resort Amanbagh in deepest darkest Rajasthan. Robyn suggested I host one of my culinary tours to India, basing it at Amanbagh. So in 2008 back I went to set up my first 10 day India tour, and I have visited every year since.
Read MoreNew Zealand Tour in 2015
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I am beside myself with excitement and just bursting to tell you the BIG news... In February next year I'll be bringing you my first New Zealand Tour... and hopefully 10 of you lucky gastronomads will be along with me for the ride!
Read MoreIndia
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India was wonderful this year as usual - hosted two big trips in October around the colourful gastronomic and shopping temples of Jaipur, Goa, Kolkata and Darjeeling. This is a ten day adventure so quite exhausting as we travel from destination to destination by plane. Of course an airport is a great place to stare at people and catch up on your writing, reading and messaging so we are at one with the universe during these enforced periods of waiting.
Read MoreNewsletter Marrakech 2013 – Rocking the Kasbah
/Here’s the word on Marrakech: it’s lush, affluent, ultra chic, has outrageously exotic restaurants and nightclubs, designer kaftans and sharp suits, funky jewelry and textiles, tagines, crab sushi, sexy North African cool and drop dead stylish accommodation. It’s one of the leading style capitals of the world. Forget hashish, back-packs, dodgy carpets and 3000 ways to do couscous – although they still exist in quaint time warp pockets – Marrakech has become a highly sophisticated and cosmopolitan Eurafrican lifestyle destination.
Read MoreNew Puglia Tour in 2014
/I have, for seemingly ever, wanted to add a gastronomic tour of somewhere in Italy to our list of destinations, but never seem to have had the time to do all the hard work. It had to be really special, different, and also fit in with our ethos and way of doing things.
Read MoreBasque country
/The Basque Country is soon to be in its third year and is proving very popular - it is partially on the northern coast of Spain, where the Navarre hills sweep down to the Cantabrian Sea; and partially on the southern coast of France where the Pyrenees mountains sweep down to the Atlantic Ocean. The fact that it is half Spanish and half French only adds to its enigmatic and dramatic air. For years foodie friends had been telling me to go there for the extraordinarily good food and I and the gastronomads were not disappointed.
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Newsletter June 2013
/The May 2013 Uzès culinary week went off like a bomb with a particularly lively and hilarious group of dedicated gastronomads, eating and drinking their way through the South of France. The Mas where we hole up has new owners - Michael and Emma from London and they have done a beautiful refurbishment.
Read MoreNewsletter Uzès 2013
/Uzès trip - July 12th - 19th 2014
After we leave crowded, colourful Marrakech, I jump on a plane, fly to Marseilles and from there drive to Uzès in the South of France, half an hour from Avignon. My culinary tours business started in Uzès in 2006 and it is still our most chic destination. Uzès is one of the most beautiful towns in France and is famous for its outrageous Saturday market bursting with fresh produce - local Pelardon goat cheeses, tellines (baby pippies), Cevennes mountain lamb, olive oil, vegetables, wine - musicians, clothes, jewelry, pottery. Everyone seems to be in a good mood, the weather is warm and the mushrooms are wild.
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