It’s no surprise that Cherie Metcalfe had a certain kitchen in mind for her first home.
The Rotorua-born chef has cooked all over the world, including for such illustrious diners as Mick Jagger.
“Mick was a guest on the super yacht I was working on,” says Cherie. “He asked for a Sunday roast, so that’s what I made.”
Cherie returned to New Zealand in 2012, and after a stint working for a catering company in Auckland, she relocated to Tauranga with her former partner.
That was a busy six years ago, in which she’s had two children – daughter Pepper, now five, and son Kit, three – and started
