Leanne Kitchen - "The Smart Mouth"

I grew up on a dairy farm in the Waikato not learning how to cook a thing. That changed. I went on to train and work as a chef for fourteen or so years, both in Auckland and in Sydney. Eventually I crossed over into the world of food media; I worked as food editor on some of the major Australasian food magazines including F.Q. Entertaining, Vogue Entertaning + Travel and Australian Gourmet Traveller. During an eclectic career in publishing I've variously been a food stylist, recipe developer, cooking demonstrator, features' writer, restaurant reviewer, copy writer, cook book editor and cook on photo shoots. Now I work as a freelancer, mainly pulling cookbooks together (although when I am able to sneak off without anyone at home really noticing, I write travel stories for magazines too.) Books I have written include the 'Providore' series ; The Butcher, The Baker, The Dairy and The Greengrocer. Currently I am researching, writing and shooting location photogaphy for a gorgeous tome based around one of the great Mediterranean cuisines- it'll come out in 2011. I live in the Inner West of Sydney where I'm in a constant state of confusion about what to cook and eat next. 

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