Ms Catherine Juliet Bell, of Auckland, MNZM for services to food education
Ms Catherine Bell is a food writer and entrepreneur, co-founder and founding editor of Dish magazine, and founding Trustee and Chair of the Garden to Table Trust. Through more than 15 years of voluntary efforts through the Trust, she has committed to educating school children to grow, harvest, prepare and eat the food they’ve grown. More than 100,000 students have gone through a Garden to Table programme, which is now offered in more than 300 schools. Ms Bell wrote, funded and published a cookbook in celebration of ten years of the Garden to Table Trust, with all profits returning to the Trust.