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‘I turned my hobby into A SIX-FIGURE BUSINESS!’

When COVID swept through Aotearoa, hordes of Kiwis turned to their kitchens as a source of entertainment, with more loaves of banana bread and trays of ginger crunch created than ever before.

But while most of us gave up on our dreams of becoming the next Nadia Lim as soon as takeaways were available again, mum-of-two Vanya Insull was creating a foodie empire.

After quitting her glamorous job as a magazine art director in Auckland to move to Taupoin

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