Cooking for change SOPHIE’S RECIPE FOR A REVOLUTION
“Everything I do has an air of chaos about it – that’s my ADD superpower,” Sophie Gray tells me frankly. She’s not joking. She does have ADD, but she says, “It’s not a disadvantage outside the education system. If it involves something I’m interested in, it 100% holds my attention.”
Sophie is probably best known to New Zealanders for her Destitute Gourmet cookbooks, which are full of delicious things you can cook on a budget and came out of a particularly lean period in her own life.
When we meet at her home on Auckland’s North Shore, the former Food magazine editor is calmly organising a stack of donated goods to feed the area’s hungry.
The leafy suburbs of the City of Sails’ northern beaches might seem an unlikely place to find a foodbank, but in these uncertain times, Sophie says there is an overwhelming need. Local
