Chef, author and broadcaster Peta Mathias lives a wonderfully full life, full of gastronomic tours of the world's top food destinations.

When she's not leading foodie tours through the likes of Italy, Spain, France, Morocco and India, she's following summer - by teaching cooking classes in the South of France before returning to New Zealand in time for our summer.

She's written about her life as part of her collection of essays bundled into a new book - It's Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession.

"I went from being really disheartened and being - I'll never write a book again, to, oh, okay, why don't I just take control of my life. That's how it happened."

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