We are very pleased to be giving away one copy of Tina Duncan’s recipe book ‘Plated’, to our GrownUps members.
All you need to do to enter the draw is be a GrownUps member, make sure you’re signed up to our newsletter and fill in your details near the bottom of the page!
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About Plated
A lifetime love affair with food culminates in this ultimate kitchen companion from Tina Duncan, one of New Zealand’s culinary gems.
Renowned New Zealand cook, caterer and cooking school tutor Tina Duncan has always had a deep love for cooking for others – be it around the kitchen table, at dinner parties, or catering for thousands of weddings and corporate events.
A lifetime love affair with food has finally culminated in this outstanding collection of the some of the most delicious plates from Tina’s sixty years of cooking. She shares how to prepare, cook and present your food for maximum effect and minimal stress, ensuring you spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the table with guests.
Plated shares Tina’s deep desire to teach how easy it can be to break bread in the spirit of a life filled with love, family and friends. Each recipe comes with time-saving tips as to what can be made ahead or kept on standby in your freezer. Whether you’re just starting out, or a confident cook looking for fresh inspiration, cooking just got easier. Let Plated become your new kitchen companion.
“Tina Duncan is without a doubt one of our country’s ‘Culinary Gems’. In Plated, Tina shares her wealth of knowledge (and her extraordinary life story), creating a gorgeous cookbook full of delicious, uncomplicated recipes and tips on how to entertain like a pro. If you’ve been fortunate to have experienced Tina’s talent, you will know what I am talking about, if not, here’s your chance to own ‘the caterer’s bible’. It’s a cracker!” – Al Brown
“While Tina’s recipes cover a huge variety of dishes, ideas, tips and tricks, I love that Tina shares how to make brawn as clearly as how to make a semifreddo without an ice-cream machine … Every time I’ve had the delight of meeting up with Tina I’ve learnt something important from her.” – Maggie Beer
TINA DUNCAN
Born and bred on a Canterbury farm, Tina’s love for food started literally standing under her mother’s apron strings helping to cook for a family of eight. Cooking full roast dinners by the age of ten and dinner parties shortly thereafter, Tina has always gravitated to the kitchen to fulfil not only her love of food, but also to share her love for others. This book shares her greatest kitchen poetry, the recipes she has used to raise her own family around the table.
Tina travelled to the UK in the early 1970s with her sister, Paula, where she met fellow Kiwi Grant Duncan and started a family journey of her own. The 1980s were spent poring through Larousse alongside The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbooks, where dinner parties were the perfect testing ground for new and exciting foods from China to India, and when garlic first entered our kitchens in New Zealand alongside the trendy “avocado pear”.
Tina and Grant enjoyed adventure, and their life took them from motor racing to farming, travelling and catering. When Tina started working for renowned Christchurch chef, the late Michael Lee-Richards, in the 1990s she finally launched herself professionally into a food career. Swapping her house for a catering business over a glass of wine, Tina operated White Tie Catering for fifteen years.
Tina was a founding director of Savour New Zealand, a food masterclass series that brought some of the greatest chefs and food writers in the world to Aotearoa. She then found herself cooking dinner for Antonio Carluccio, Anthony Bourdain, Maggie Beer, Stephanie Alexander and Sophie Grigson, to name just a few.
This book is designed around entertaining, drawing on Tina’s lifetime of experience in cooking for a crowd. Her recipes will help you know how far to take prep in advance, how to heat and hold, to revolutionise your kitchen technique with tinfoil and tea towels, and most importantly, how to enjoy being with your guests rather than stuck in the kitchen.
Tina lives in Christchurch alongside a large family with six grandchildren and still, her favourite thing to do is bring them all together around the table.
To try out one the recipes from Plated, click here
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- You must be a GrownUps member and receive our newsletter to be eligible to win.
- Competition closes on the 15th November 2023, winners will be notified via email by 16th November 2023.
- It is your responsibility to ensure you correctly enter a New Zealand postal address where the prize can be couriered. GrownUps will not take responsibility for prizes sent to incorrect addresses.
- Winners are drawn at random by the GrownUps administration team.
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- One entry per household.
- Prize is non transferrable.
- You must reside in New Zealand – the prize will only be posted within New Zealand.
- You must be over 50 years of age to enter, check your details are correct in your membership dashboard.