Dame Alison Holst has released her 100th book.
One-hundred books. Total sales: over 4.5 million copies.
Mince, muffins, sausages, beef, lamb and eggs.
“Home cooking,” she calls it.
And there will be very many New Zealand homes who know exactly what she means by that.
But her 100th book, which is out Wednesday, is not a cook book. But rather, a sort of memoir.
It is a look back on a career that began in Dunedin, the best part of five decades ago – and almost by accident.
All because some TV execs decided we couldn’t have only posh English chefs on TV and went looking for a likely Kiwi.
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