Chef and host of Kai Ora, on Maori TV and Food TV; chef for P&O's new Pacific Pearl.
The one ingredient I can't live without is ... Salt of the Earth and Sea
I have $20 and four people to feed, I'm making ... large snapper heads steamed or roasted. Dice potatoes, onions and carrots and cook in a steamer with the de-scaled heads for about 10 minutes. Season and devour. Drink stock as a tonic. Or toss oiled heads into a 140C oven on baking paper and slow roast for about a -hour, season, squeeze over lemon juice then pick through flesh and bones delicately with chopsticks or rip into them with your hands. Sprinkle over delicious extra virgin olive oil and eat with loads of steamed green vegetables in season.
I'm tired and hungry, I am ordering takeaways from ... SPQR
The person I'd most like to cook for is ... Betty Cuthbert, 88, my home economics teacher who taught me how to cook when I was 9 years old.
The best meal I have ever eaten is ... sucking shell fish off the rocks, thanks to Tangaroa, god of the sea.
Oh dear, it's my last meal, I'm eating ... humble pie.
