Jo Seagar — dubbed ‘cook of the nation' by Next magazine — is the hugely successful bestselling cookbook author and TV cook, famed for her catch-cries of ‘Easy peasy' and ‘Maximum effect for minimum effort'.
Trained as a cordon bleu chef in Paris and London, for many years Seagar was a columnist for North & South magazine, while running popular Hartley's restaurant in Auckland. She also wrote for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly. 'Real Food for Real People' saw her move into television, and this series was a followed by 'Jo Seagar Cooks', bringing the chef to a wider audience.