Newsletter December 2009
Posted by peta on Wednesday December 09, 2009 5:01 pm
Hello fellow gastro-nomads,
Gastronomic Trips News
Well, it’s been quite an exciting year. The Rajasthan trip was fabulous, we have sold our six part series on the Marrakesh trip, not only to international distributer TVF but also to Prime TV in NZ. It will screen early 2010 so stay coiled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8A6J8h_IRk&feature=channel
I also did some private culinary workshops in Uzès this year for small groups which were very successful - three days of intensive cooking, eating, drinking, farm and vineyard visits, market tours, restaurant visits etc.
My business partner David and I will be conducting our usual week long gastronomic adventure for a maximum of ten people in Uzès in June. If you would like to see one of our guest chefs, here’s the link - www.ambianceculinaire.com
Separate from that, I will be spending six months based in Uzès in 2010 (May to October inclusive), writing, teaching cooking and organizing culinary adventures in the area. As I will be there all summer I will also be conducting mini sessions for small numbers. Do email me on petamathias@gmail.com if you wish to enquire about these.
David and I will be hosting the trips to Marrakesh and Rajasthan as per usual.
Rajasthan, India 6 - 16 March and 8 - 18 October 2010
Uzès, South of France 5 - 12 June 2010
Marrakesh, Morocco 19 - 26 June 2010
Check www.petamathias.com for info, newsletters and pix of the trips
Book News
I’m happy to report my book on women “Can We Help It If We’re Fabulous”, published in 2008 was a best seller in NZ - 15,000 copies sold so far. It has been published in Great Britain and also bought by Germany. I’m also happy to report the follow up book on men “Just In Time To Be Too Late” published in 2009 has also hit the best seller list. In it you will find revealing interviews with my business partner David Horsman! I am presently working on a book of essays covering such subjects as why redheads have more fun, how I stopped strangling my mother, how to beat eggwhites till stiff, why the demonization of fat is so wrong, heroic things men have done to save us and the true story about multiple orgasms. It is to be called “Beat Till Stiff”.
TV News
Last year I started up my own television production company with colleagues Jeff and Jane Avery, called Red Head Media Group. We are making good food shows under the umbrella title of Peta Unplugged. The first is a DVD on sale in shops called 10 Fabulous recipes For Summer Entertaining - www.petaunplugged.com
The second is a six part series on Marrakesh to screen on Prime TV in early 2010. See Utube link above
Happy Christmas everyone and may the New Year be gastronomically satisfying for you! www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-taste-of-christmas-2003
