Food has always been a big part of Manawatū food stylist, photographer, cook, recipe developer, artist, entrepreneur and mum Christall Lowe's life. In her first, fantastic book, Kai, she goes back to the beginning of a flavoursome journey that began on her nana's lap with a revelatory mouthful of mashed kamokamo…
“Too young to walk or talk. I'm sure that first meal set me up for a life of loving good, homegrown kai — and butter. Food has always been a huge part of our family life. ‘Good kai', as Grandad would say. Kai is a book about our way of cooking, eating and gathering — whether it be the gathering of kai or the gathering of people. Our ‘life of kai'.
“Our life of kai is
