Jo Seagar is the hugely successful author and TV cook. She is a sixth-generation New Zealander who holds a wire whisk and a conversation simultaneously. She adores entertaining and cooking for friends and always has a houseful of people staying. She enjoys country life, polo, pet lambs, old recipe books, trashy novels, good jokes and gardening. All this she does in Clevedon, where she lives with her husband Ross and children Kate and Guy. John Stringer is a popular cartoonist and also the co-author of Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.