Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • New Zealand Listener

    A TASTE OF HOME

    Nov 14, 2021 8 minutes
    by LOUISE CHUNN

    If you are aware that Samoan-New Zealander Monica Galetti is a chef, it’s probably because you have seen her on television. She has been a judge on the UK series of MasterChef: The Professionals since 2009; she has also co-presented the globetrotting series Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby with funny-man/journalist Giles Coren for the past four years.

    As a familiar TV face, she is constantly asked if she will do any of the myriad other shows populated by celebrities. Strictly Come Dancing? “Many times.” I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!? “Yes, yes, that, too.” To these and all the others, the answer is always no, no, no. As she says, “You do these things if you just want to be on TV, but it’s different for me – I only wanted to be a chef.” And, for all that TV may have helped, being the consummate kitchen professional is still her motivation.

    The double blows of Covid and Brexit have been felt particularly hard by the UK’s restaurants, bars and cafes.

    I meet Galetti one autumn morning in the bar of the restaurant she co-owns and runs with her French-born husband, David Galetti. Dressed in a Persil-white chef’s jacket, her name embroidered on the chest,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from New Zealand Listener

    New Zealand Listener9 min read
    Dolphins Be Damned
    From the water, one sensed the mood of the crowd – 11,000 strong, banked above Naval Point, Lyttelton – souring, and then turning against an unlikely villain. A Hector’s dolphin/upokohue had been sighted by the dolphin spotters, leading to a delay to
    New Zealand Listener1 min read
    Thursday May 9
    Journalist Scott Johnson’s book Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius tracked how LA movie folk were being taken in by a fraudster posing as prominent women producers and sending them to Indonesia for location scouting, where they were tol
    New Zealand Listener1 min read
    10 Quick Questions
    ❑ Madonna ❑ Taylor Swift ❑ Blondie ❑ Lady Gaga ❑ Paris ❑ Lyon ❑ Orléans ❑ Montreal ❑ Julius Caesar ❑ Hamlet ❑ Cymbeline ❑ Romeo and Juliet ❑ Beatrice ❑ Eugenie ❑ Charlotte ❑ Louisa ❑ Animals ❑ Trains ❑ Plants ❑ Microbiology ❑ Oste

    Related Books & Audiobooks