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Fleur

The Life & Times Of Pioneering Restaurateur Fleur Sullivan

Fleur Sullivan Aaron McLean

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English
Random House New Zealand Ltd
04 November 2011
The memoir of a characterful restaurateur and national treasure.

The memoir of the characterful restaurateur and national treasure. Fleur Sullivan is a South Island legend, the culinary maven responsible for not one but two iconic local restaurants Olivers in Clyde and the eponymous Fleurs Place in Moeraki. Now, at the age of 72, she's running a third, The Loan and Merc in her home town of Oamaru. Her eventful career has spanned more than 40 years, during which time she's transformed two sleepy towns into international destinations. Fleur is brimming with great stories, anecdotes, reminiscences, the conversations had round her table and friendships formed in her establishments. This memoir chronicles her early life cooking in a pub on the West Coast, through to setting up Dunstan House in Clyde and on to the heady days of the restaurant scene in the 1970s in Queenstown. Drawing on this range of influences, Fleur then returned to Clyde and embarked on the 20-year journey that was Olivers, using local produce and products at a time when no one else was doing so. From there she went to Moeraki and opened her world-renowned fish restaurant Fleurs Place. Everything Fleur does is touched by her warmth, vision and enthusiams, making her pl

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Imprint:   Random House New Zealand Ltd
Country of Publication:   New Zealand
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 158mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   610g
ISBN:   9781869795528
ISBN 10:   1869795520
Pages:   264
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Fleur Sullivan is the owner of the acclaimed fish restarant Fleurs Place in Moeraki and runs the Loan and Mercantile in Oamaru. She is one of New Zealand's pioneering restaurateurs.

  • Shortlisted for PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Typography 2012.
  • Shortlisted for PANZ Book Design Awards: Illustrated Book 2012.
  • Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Illustrated Book 2012
  • Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Illustrated Book 2012.
  • Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Typography 2012
  • Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Best Typography 2012.
  • Winner of PANZ Book Design Awards: Illustrated Book 2012.

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