- Alison Holst
Alison Holst (born 1938) is a best-selling
New Zealand food writer and television chef. Her first television programme premiered in 1965. The following year she published the first of around 80 cookbooks. Since then the cookbooks have collectively sold more than three million copies, and she has appeared on numerous other television and radio shows as well as writing newspaper columns and magazine articles.She describes the style of food in most of her books 'everyday food' and the recipes are generally written for home cooks and intended to be easy and reasonably cheap to make, as well as nutritious. Since 1994 she has marketed a brand of bulk wholefoods under the name 'Alison's Choice' through the
Foodstuffs supermarket company.Holst graduated from Otago College of the University of New Zealand (now the
University of Otago ) with a Bachelor of Home Science and subsequently spent a year at Teachers' College. She then began lecturing in the Foods Department at the School of Home Science before starting her television career. In 1983 she was awarded theQueen's Service Medal for services to the community and in 1987 was made aCommander of the British Empire for services to Home Science, and in 1997 was given an honoraryDoctor of Science degree from the University of Otago.In recent years she has co-written several cookbooks with her son Simon.
External links
* Biography page at Alison Holst mail order [http://www.holst.co.nz/Portal.asp?nextscreenid=201.102.101.101&categoryid=2&sessionx=B45E8A2E-B401-49F7-8537-222C849FB2A5] .
* [http://www.otago.ac.nz/alumni/profiles/alisonholst.html Alison Holst profile] at the University of Otago website
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