We’re excited to be giving away two copies of It’s Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession by Peta Mathias to our GrownUps members!
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Prolific chef, author and broadcaster Peta Mathias shares confessional essays about her life, family and friends in her entertaining 19th book and guide to living life to the full.
‘Do we really have to have Persian dried rose petals, Pete? I mean, on a scale of one to ten, how essential are they in the dish you’re cooking?’ asks brother Paul with his patient face on.
I go blank. How important are rose petals? Is this a trick question? What kind of bullshit supermarket is this anyway? There are 37 million products here. How hard would it have been to throw a few packets of rose petals on the shelf?
In this, her 19th book, Peta Mathias regales her readers with indiscreet stories from her life – how to deal with anger and temps perdu, why it’s not a sin to wear black underwear, how eating sun-drenched food will keep you young and beautiful forever, how to open your eyes with a knife and what happens when you go on holiday with five A-types. If Peta can survive her life while wearing designer clothes and red lipstick, so can you. You don’t have to be a recovered Catholic to tell the truth.
‘It’s been six weeks since my last confession is not really a memoir. It’s more of a manual on how to live a full life. Peta Mathias writes with warmth, humour and insight. She shares her life and recipes with generosity and joy. I absolutely loved this book.’ — Diane Connell, author of The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird
’Peta Mathias ladles out another perfectly seasoned bouillabaisse of a book rich with wit, weirdness, wickedness and just the right amount of spice.’ — Sarah-Kate Lynch, writer
‘Wise, witty & wicked, Peta Mathias is always a joy.’— Nicky Pellegrino, writer
About the Author
Peta Mathias MNZM is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef, author and broadcaster, who conducts gastronomic tours to such exotic places as Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco 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 travel/food TV 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 of her work as an author and TV presenter.
Click here to read an extract from Peta’s book
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