Photographer and cookbook author Christall Lowe. Photo: Lowe
Christall Lowe is a food writer, stylist and photographer based in Fielding.
Her first book Kai won the Best First Book Award for Non-fiction at the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was highly commended at the PANZ Book Design and NZ Booklovers awards.
Christall's follow up cookbook Kai Feast is out now. It's full of recipes, inter-woven with stories of traditional gathering and feasting, tips on cooking for a crowd and notes on foraging and using native herbs.
Mihi speaks with Christall about using cooking techniques which have been passed down through generations, and shares the recipe for her nana's jelly cheesecake.
