Peta Mathias has a busy year ahead. Next week, the chef, author and entertainer heads to India to host a luxury shopping tour, showcasing the country’s fashion, textiles, interiors and jewellery. Then she’s off to Hawke’s Bay, where she’ll entertain a packed house for a wine-matched three-course French dinner at Pask Winery for F.A.W.C!, the region’s annual food and wine festival.
Once home, she’ll host her bi-weekly supper clubs in Auckland, teaching guests how to cook recipes from around the world. Then in early May, she’s off overseas again, this time to Marrakech, in Morocco, for a food tour, before relocating to Uzès in the South of France for a few months, as she does every year. She’ll return to New Zealand in October to launch her next book –…