A Cook's Diary

Culinary musings from the travels and daily life of a New Zealand cook

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Food with a View

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Every week or so I receive a delightful email from a website called My Little Paris . This being my favorite city in the world it offers me...
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Good Mother's Jam

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More years ago than I care to remember (actually it was the late 70’s) I travelled around Europe for many months in an old VW Combi van t...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Autumn Delights

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Most of us think of root vegetables as the ubiquitous carrots, parsnips, potatoes and turnips. But amongst this group exists some other del...
Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Dynamic Bio-Dynamics

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My recent visit to South Australia for Tasting Australia was inspiring in more ways than one, but the one thing that really pushed my b...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Eating South Australia

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The first few days of Tasting Australia have been a whirlwind of reuniting with old friends (other TA stalwarts from all around the world)...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

What's New in Melbourne?

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To me, Melbourne is one of the food Mecca’s of the world. However each time I visit it is not to return to my old favorite haunts but to exp...
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Cheesy Discoveries

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I love cheese and am hugely proud of the wonderful cheese we produce in New Zealand, even if I can’t take credit for any of them myself. So ...
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Catherine Bell
I am a New Zealand based cook and food writer.In 2004 I co-founded leading food magazine Dish. For many years I owned and operated The Epicurean Workshop, a specialist cookware store and cooking school. These days, Aside from freelance food and culinary travel writing, I also own an importing company specialising in eco-friendly products for serving and presenting food such as the beautiful WASARA range from Japan and traditional Spanish cookware. I chair the Garden to Table Trust. GTT is a programme for primary schools where children aged 7-10 grow, harvest, prepare and share good food as part of their learning. It is based on the very successful Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation in Australia. Apart from food, which has been a consuming passion for me and the focus of my career for more than 30 years now, I live to travel. My (now grown) children often tell me I have spent more time away from home than at home. This is of course not entirely true - I wish it was though.I also focus on being an enviro aware NZer. I have a square foot vege garden in my inner city courtyard and derive much pleasure from picking the odd broad bean or globe artichoke from it.
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