Lauraine Jacobs, a Past President of the NZ Guild of Food Writers, is the Food Columnist for the NZ Listener magazine, an internationally respected food and wine writer and author/editor of nine cookbooks and one travel book, Matakana.

She was trained at the London Cordon Bleu School and has been writing on all matters culinary for more than 20 years. She started as food editor of Fashion Quarterly in the late '80s, and served as food editor for Cuisine magazine until 2009. The Confident Cook is one of her bestselling cookbooks in New Zealand. She was editor of A Treasury of New Zealand Baking which has raised almost $40,000 in royalties for the Breast Cancer Foundation, and in 2010 worked with NZGFW members, editing a new book Comfort, Food to Share from which all royalties will benefit the Starship Foundation. In 2015 her title A Treasury of New Zealand Baking made The New Zealand Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)