Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard
  • Published: 31 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781775533870
  • Imprint: RH NZ
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00

Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard

a memoir

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Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change.

Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change.

‘I’ve escaped more houses than I’ve said Hail Marys.’
Peta Mathias has been making major moves since leaving home to train as a nurse, before living in Canada, London and later France, where she set up her own restaurant. Although she returned to New Zealand, writing food books and making television series, she continued to yoyo back to Europe and started culinary tours to Spain, Italy, Morocco, India, Vietnam, and the recurring attraction: France.

In this ‘memoir of sorts’, Peta looks back at the patterns of her life while she embarks on the next big stage in it: selling her beloved cottage in Auckland to buy a dilapidated old house in Uzès in the south of France and transforming the old wreck into a stylish home and cooking school. This new domesticity is set against her nomadic instincts and past history of running away from all conventional expectations of settling down. Spiced with recipes, the thrills and tribulations of reinventing yourself and her trademark humour, this book is really about never putting all your eggs in one bastard.
  • Published: 31 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9781775533870
  • Imprint: RH NZ
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Peta Mathias

Peta Mathias MNZM is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef, author and broadcaster, who conducts gastronomic tours to such exotic places as France, Morocco, Spain, Vietnam, Italy and India. She lives in the South of France in the French summer, teaching cooking classes in her Uzès home and lives in Auckland in the New Zealand summer, writing and avoiding winter. For twelve years Peta presented the award winning prime time travel/food television shows Taste New Zealand, Taste Takes Off and A Taste of Home. Her many books are about food, travel, life, men, women, love and explaining how egg whites can transform your life. In 2012 Peta was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit by the New Zealand Government in recognition for her work as an author and TV presenter. www.petamathias.com

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Also by Peta Mathias

French Toast: Eating and Laughing Your Way Around France
Shed Couture
Beat Till Stiff: A Woman's Recipe for Living
Just in Time to be Too Late
Can We help It If We're Fabulous?
Eat Your Heart Out
Burnt Barley
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Praise for Never Put All Your Eggs in One Bastard

Essentially a memoir about her experiences of selling her cottage in Auckland and building a functional home and workplace in the South of France at the age of 67, it is humorous, self-indulgent and at times shocking . . . Something of a late bloomer, by her own admission, Peta's life has taken many twists, turns and career paths, flanked by an ever-changing cast of eccentric friends and lovers. From nursing to counselling, to TV hosting, cooking, writing books and currently hosting cooking tours.

Carmen Lichi, NZ Woman's Weekly

For as long as I have been in the book trade there has been a Peta Mathias book to ensure great laughs, to engage the brain and just a good old story to be told. Peta crafts a story like no other and her titles 'tell it like it is'. Funny, passionate, outrageous and honest, this is a memoir about travel, house renovations, food, music, men and change. I would suggest that this book is more memoir - moving and raw, showing courage and character in the face of all that Peta has walked through. . . She still includes her trademark blend of narrative, recipes and humour. One thing is for sure - this book is most entertaining and will bring a shiver one moment and a hearty laugh the next. Be sure to add this newest Peta Mathias to your collection!

Wairarapa Times-Age Weekend

She's bold, she's colourful, she's interesting and she's ours...Peta Mathias is a staple of our foodie television watching. Now, the former nurse and self-proclaimed "bolter, nomad and gourmand' offers fans her candid and somewhat bitter-sweet memoir covering cuisine, travel and adventure. . . . Saucy tales, racy humour, languid laments about feminism are rife, but the book also recounts her most recent uprooting - selling her Grey Lynn cottage to transform a dilapidated Southern France hovel into a stylish new abode and cooking school in Uzes. Catholicism, hippie culture, perfectionism and men don't escape her pithy recounts, but it's clear Mathias is a woman who risks much, can't be tied down and is always dreaming of her next adventure.

New Zealand Food Technology

At an age when many think about slowing down, the fab Peta Mathias decided to change her life in dramatic fashion. . . She is opinionated, unconventional and wise … what Peta never can be is boring. This vibrant memoir may well inspire its readers to have some new adventures.

Nicky Pellegrino, NZ Woman's Weekly