Chef Monique Fiso. Photo: Supplied
Monique Fiso is an awarding-winning chef, writer and visual artist, who has spent time cooking and living in the US, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.
Monique has competed with some of the world's best chefs on Netflix's The Final Table, and introduced Māori cuisine to the global stage, including on British chef Gordon Ramsay's Uncharted series - where she got him to eat raw huhu grubs straight from the log.
Her fine dining restaurant Hiakai, which celebrated indigenous food, was fully booked from the day she opened in 2018 until the day she closed last year.
Now, working on her second book with partner Katie Monteith, Monique is focusing on wild botanical kai and kai motuhake, also known as food sovereignty.
