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Born in 1922 in Prague to German-speaking parents, Harry Sangl established a career as a professional painter before marrying a New Zealander and emigrating to her homeland in 1969. Chance circumstances led him to meeting his first 'kuia with moko' in Ruatoki, Bay of Plenty in 1972, beginning a pilgrimage around the country to locate the 34 moko kauae bearers and seek their consent to be portraited. Now resident in Auckland, Harry Sangl has continued an illustrious painting career into his nineties. An exhibition of prints of his kuia moko works took place at the Depot Artspace in Devonport, Auckland, in March 2019.
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Sarah Burtscher has been involved in the hospitality business since her teens and brought her first café in the early 2000’s when she was in her thirties in Christchurch, New Zealand She moved onto Lake Tekapo where she revamped an existing cafe and started Run 77 Cafe and then the Tin Plate - Pizza, Pasta & Piada and Bar. She has never trained professionally but loves cooking and what food represents and hates wasting it! Sarah has lived on a fairly remote High Country Station with a four hour round trip to a large supermarket, so she is used to making do with what you have, when need be. This is where the hacks not to throw food out, the planning and “cleaning out the fridge”, came into play. She says, “With remote living you are totally responsible for all your own rubbish. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that the food waste statistics are shocking, some people just don’t know how to utilise their grocery shop to the full. In Waste Not Want Not there are (mostly) recipes to show you how older, forgotten food can be made into delicious home cooked meals. You don’t need to be a good cook, you don’t need fancy ingredients, you can just make do and cook on. I can’t ignore the fact that the idea to write the book germinated in 2019 and then in March 2020 the whole world went into lockdown and home cooking, of necessity, came back into vogue. Never has it been more important to value your food, to help the environment and to help your wallet. I’ve added a lockdown chapter of recipes, all cooked in isolation at Level 4 NZ, it was when I got my A into G and got started.. Be greener with ‘Fridge Cleaner’ cooking, save some cash and have some fun!”
Duncan Sarkies is a writer of novels, theatre, and screen stories for film and television. He has been recognised with the Best First Book of Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds, and the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Duncan has received the Louis Johnson New Writers' Bursary, the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, and a residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. Duncan's screenplays include Scarfies, and the adaptation of his first novel Two Little Boys, both collaborations with his brother Robert. Duncan has written for TV including Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows, and wrote, directed, and co-created the acclaimed audio series The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie's Botanarium. Star Gazers is his third novel.
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Sue Saunders is a trained counsellor who has worked for a major fertility clinic in New Zealand for 19 years. Prior to that she worked as a senior lecturer in Human Resources and Communication at Wellington College of Education, and as a counsellor at Wellington School of Medicine. She has a BA from Otago University, a Diploma of Education and a Masters in Guidance and Counselling.
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