OLIVIA GALLETLY

Contributor

Olivia regularly contributes a section of recipes to dish, conceptualising, cooking, styling and photographing them all herself, from her home in Red Beach, Auckland. How long have you worked for dish? Olivia: Five years.

What does your day-to-day job for dish involve?

Olivia: I work as a freelancer for dish, and each issue, I recipe-test, cook, style and shoot one of the recipe sections.

I think it’s amazing that you recipe-test, cook, style and shoot all the dishes yourself. How do you do it all on your own?!

Olivia: Thank you! Cooking is something

I’ve always loved doing. I really wanted to get into the food industry but studied as a graphic designer. I combined my skills to create what is my job today. I really enjoy thinking about what a dish might look like while I’m planning my recipes.

What’s your favourite part of your job?

Olivia: Cooking! It still blows my mind that I spend my days at home in my kitchen concocting delicious meals. I also really enjoy working with Claire and Sarah. They both have so much knowledge in food and styling. It’s great having someone to bounce ideas off who is equally excited about all the recipes.

And your least favourite?

Olivia: Not super surprising, but the dishes! Food always looks best shot straight away, so the kitchen is always a bombsite until the end of the day.

What’s been your favourite moment of your time at dish so far?

Olivia: When I was younger, working for dish was the dream job. I’d always loved cooking and regretted the path I’d decided to take at university. I was working as a graphic designer for an advertising agency and the only cooking I did was for my flat. My older sister ended up working for dish (which I was insanely envious of) and on her last day, she asked me to make a cake for her to take in. Later that week I was asked if

I’d mind sharing that recipe on the dish website [the Rhubarb and Strawberry Layer Cake]. I think I might have cried! My first section in the mag was also very exciting.