A passionate home cook and baker, Nicole has a background in architecture and publishing. A former editor of Urbis magazine, her last book, Bungalow, was published with Random House.

Writing about what she was cooking started as a hobby but over the years transformed into something more structured. Believing good food shouldn’t be stressful or showy, she has honed her own approach to cooking and entertaining that is based on maximum result for limited effort.

She lives in Auckland with her architect husband and two year old son.