Profile
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Tracey’s career so far has spanned 35 years. Her passion for food has taken her as a chef, around the world and back. Tracey finds her inspiration to cook in everyday life and working with food and cooking come naturally.
Over the past twenty-one year’s Tracey has balanced family life with creating recipes and writing food feature stories for many well-known magazines which include, New Zealand Life and Leisure magazine, Nadia and Taste magazine, Healthy Food Guide magazine, Food magazine (Countdown in house magazine), Good magazine, recipe writer, chef, food stylist + food photos for My Food Bag. Her daughters, Sophie (20) and Eliza (17) often featured when they were young girls in her food stories and recipe features. Now they enjoy creating tasty meals and baking by themselves. Recently Tracey has started authoring editorial stories for local North Shore magazine Channel (Benefitz Media Ltd) it is wonderful to be able to share stories, and she is enjoying the freedom of writing on new topics. Tracey has also recently achieved her General Managers License to work in hospitality venues as Duty Manager. She continues to collect seasonal fruit, make fruit pastes and loves experimenting with different breads and sourdough. Before her daughters were born, Tracey established a catering company The Galley, designing gourmet menus and recipes for corporate and private companies. She catered for two major Americas Cup campaigns in Auckland. (Often cooking onboard private charter boats and soaking up the crazy yacht racing atmosphere.) At this time Tracey was introduced to the world of food advertising and worked for Allyson Gofton and the Wattie’s Food in a Minute Team. |
Top photo: Tracey in her kitchen at home.
Bottom Photo: Tracey and her family. |
Food Achievements
I have entered recipes in the NZ Food Writers Culinary Quill Awards and I am a Finalist in the 2019 Recipe Writing "Commercial" category with my 'Mellow Yellow' Banana Recipe Feature (below). I was also a Finalist for the same award in 2013 for 'The Summer Oven' Recipe Feature in Healthy Food Guide. In the chicken feature below, my Chicken Meat Loaf recipe was ' runner up' in a Tegal Bacon recipe competition. This is a modern twist on an old classic and a family favourite!
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As a freelance writer, adventure and new challenges inspire me. 
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