Chef speaks on nutritious, delicious food
Chef to movie celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law, Amber Rose is a food stylist, food writer and cook with a flair for the tasty and the nutritious. Rose believes a well-nourished life is one filled with wholesome, delicious food thoughtfully prepared. In her latest cook book Wild Delicious she prepares simple, nutritious recipes with ingredients from the gardens, orchards, farms and ocean of New Zealand. Her earlier cookbooks, Love Bake Nourish and The Wholefood Pantry were also popular.
Rose moved home three years ago and lives in Warkworth with her two children. Her mother is Kay Baxter, co-founder of the Koanga Institute, New Zealand’s largest heritage food plant collection.
“I left New Zealand when I was 18 and I’ve lived overseas pretty much my entire adult life. Coming back and being able to write a cookbook about moving home and some of my childhood stories was quite a special moment, and the book was all shot in [my] kitchen,” Rose said.
Having grown up with her gardener mother, Kay Baxter she said she knows instinctively how to grow things, but did not have the space to do so while living overseas.
“When I came back, I put in this massive vegetable garden and herbs and flowers and they were all grown from my mum’s heritage seeds that she’d collected, so that was awesome. All the pictures in my cookbook were from things I’d grown myself, so that was pretty cool.” Introduced by UCOL cookery lecturer Gina Guigou, Amber will talk at a high tea about her passion for whole, fresh food and share some recipes and stories. ■ Event: Wildly Delicious, High Tea with Amber Rose, Whanganui Literary Festival Venue: Pioneer Room, War Memorial Centre, Sunday, October 6, 3-4pm Bookings: Royal Wanganui Opera House Admission: $30 numbers limited, bookings essential.