Sweet, succulent & spicy - Shared Kitchen
Petra Galler is a 32-year-old talented baker who’s first book Butter, Butter was published by Allen & Unwin in April this year. I was drawn to the book because of its stunning photography (Melanie Jenkins, Flash Studios) and tempting combinations of flavours. I caught up with Petra recently in Auckland.
‘My arteries are only just unclogging’, she laughs heartily down the phone, ‘We’d fall on the baking after the shoots and just eat. It was an intense 10 days, which we loved, and it was sad when it was all over, although perhaps better that it was!
‘My mother is from a farm in Havelock North. She wasn’t much of a cook when I was growing up – she’s getting better, we think. When I was 7 years-old I asked her if we could make a cake, then asked if I could do the whole thing, and she left me to it, and it worked out quite good – so they said!
‘We are Polish Jews on Dad’s side...
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