Book Launch | It’s Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession
Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to a special book launch to celebrate Peta Mathias’s new book, It’s Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession: Essays on Life.
‘Do we really have to have Persian dried rose petals, Pete? I mean, on a scale of one to ten, how essential are they in the dish you’re cooking?’ asks brother Paul with his patient face on. I go blank. How important are rose petals? Is this a trick question? What kind of bullshit supermarket is this anyway? There are 37 million products here. How hard would it have been to throw a few packets of rose petals on the shelf?
In this, her 19th book, Peta Mathias regales her readers with indiscreet stories from her life – how to deal with anger and temps perdu, why it’s not a sin to wear black underwear, how eating sun-drenched food will keep you young and beautiful forever, how to open your eyes with a knife and what happens when you go on holiday with five A-types. If Peta can survive her life while wearing designer clothes and red lipstick, so can you. You don’t have to be a recovered Catholic to tell the truth.
Peta Mathias MNZM is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef, author, entertainer and broadcaster, who writes about food and travel and hosts gastronomic tours in the South of France, Puglia, Basque Country and India.
‘Do we really have to have Persian dried rose petals, Pete? I mean, on a scale of one to ten, how essential are they in the dish you’re cooking?’ asks brother Paul with his patient face on. I go blank. How important are rose petals? Is this a trick question? What kind of bullshit supermarket is this anyway? There are 37 million products here. How hard would it have been to throw a few packets of rose petals on the shelf?
In this, her 19th book, Peta Mathias regales her readers with indiscreet stories from her life – how to deal with anger and temps perdu, why it’s not a sin to wear black underwear, how eating sun-drenched food will keep you young and beautiful forever, how to open your eyes with a knife and what happens when you go on holiday with five A-types. If Peta can survive her life while wearing designer clothes and red lipstick, so can you. You don’t have to be a recovered Catholic to tell the truth.
Peta Mathias MNZM is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef, author, entertainer and broadcaster, who writes about food and travel and hosts gastronomic tours in the South of France, Puglia, Basque Country and India.
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