Eat Your Heart Out

Eat Your Heart Out is saucy Peta Mathias’s new book of love stories from around the world. Over the years, while on her gastronomic travels, she heard countless lovelorn tales. Once home she researched and unearthed more and has now retold them in her usual irreverent way. If you have a few hours to while away the time and dip into this entertaining book you are bound to learn something new about that phenomenon known as love (and who knows what that might lead to?!)

Light but informative, this charming little book is the perfect morsel to snack on when the fancy takes you. Love and food are its twin themes and, as often happens with the former, at first encounter you’re left feeling bewildered. What is this? Is it a cookbook, a collection of stories, a poetry anthology, a series of personal insights? The answer is, it’s all of them. cheeky, earthy, and full of personal musings - she reckons the way a man eats asparagus hints at his skills in the bedroom - there’s something entertaining on every page

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.

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