From India With Love

For Julie Guise, home cooking has always been done on a macro scale. She’s turned out trays of mousetraps to feed harvesters at midnight. She’s layered industrial sized lasagnes for teams of shearers. “Men don’t work on empty stomachs,” she says, rolling her Rs in the way of the region in which she’s lived her whole life. “I’m a quantity cook rather than a quality cook.”

She’s also a mother of five, grandmother of 10, and, alongside husband Roger, farmer of 180 hectares of lush Southland. The Guise family have lived and farmed here so long that the street they live on — Guise Road — bears their name. Four of their children