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For as long as she can remember, as a kid, she was into making magic potions. She has a guilty food secret that would make gourmets shriek with horror. “I adore ketchup, that most plebeian of all condiments… I put it on eggs. I put it on mac and cheese. My in-laws gave me a shirt that says ‘I put ketchup on my ketchup’ one year for Christmas.”

She has a self-proclaimed “teensy little tendency” to obsess about perfecting recipes and fine-tuning her invariably delicious results, which means she spent one summer on a “meringue rampage that culminated in my almost famous Orange Chocolate Meringues and Pavlova with brandied peaches and chai custard sauce that my friends are still talking about.”

And she believes in looking good by enjoying healthy food, not obsessive self-starvation. “Think Skinny Gourmet: Eating well is perfectly compatible with loving food. Prepare food for yourself that you love so much you want to savour it slowly.”

Using original recipes, this “intrepid PhD researcher by day, food lover and a demon in the kitchen,” has managed to create a world of delicious, yet healthy, food.

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