Peta Mathias (Author)

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Peta Mathias is a respected and prolific chef, author, broadcaster and television presenter. She also finds time each year to run very popular culinary adventures to Morocco, the South of France and Rajasthan, intended for travellers who love to cook.

Peta has written a number of books about food and travel and presented a prime time television food and travel show, 'Taste New Zealand', for twelve years. As well as food and travel books, Peta has also written two bestsellers about relationships, Can we help it if we're Fabulous? and Just in Time to be Too Late. Her latest humour book, Beat till Stiff, is a companion to these two titles.

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Book Cover:  Beat Till Stiff: A Woman's Recipe for Living

Beating egg whites till they're stiff is a metaphor for life – just when you thought your existence would never be more than flaccid transparent snot, something happens to turn it into tight white light.

Beating egg whites till they're stiff is a metaphor for life – just when you thought your existence would never be more than flaccid transparent snot, something happens to turn it into tight white...

Published: 31/10/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143566700
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Can We help It If We're Fabulous?
Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742287096
Book Cover:  Can We help It If We're Fabulous? And other thoughts on being a woman
Television presenter, author and bon vivant, Peta Mathias's life has been anything but dull.
Television presenter, author and bon vivant, Peta Mathias's life has been anything but dull.
Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143008040
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Culinary Adventures in Marrakech

I wake up in the morning and throw the shutters open. It's dawn and the first prayers of the day have just hurled over the rooftops of Marrakech. Breakfast is home-made jam, honey, tea, freshly squeezed orange juice and a basket full of freshly baked, still warm breads – m'lawi, flat bread, pancake and croissant.

And with this, the irrepressible Peta Mathias begins her culinary adventures...

I wake up in the morning and throw the shutters open. It's dawn and the first prayers of the day have just hurled over the rooftops of Marrakech. Breakfast is home-made jam, honey, tea, freshly squeezed...

Published: 02/08/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143204596
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover:  Just in Time to be Too Late
Published: 26/10/2009
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742288901

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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