New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

A cup of tea with... MIKE VAN DE ELZEN

‘We’ve gone into 2021 feeling really proud of the way we came out of last year, and we’re really excited about the future of the school’

the end of 2019, celebrity cook Michael Van de Elzen announced he’d had the worst year of his life. He’d been diagnosed with cancer, badly injured in a motocross bike accident, and both his best friend and stepfather-in-law had passed away. But the celebrity chef was determined to make thecatches up with him a year after he opened the Good From Scratch Cookery School on his farm in west Auckland.

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