Our secret recipe
This time last year, wasn’t feeling great. Her adult children, Rose and Sean, were living overseas, the global pandemic was raging uncontrollably around them, and sleepless nights were many. The devoted mum was worried they’d get sick, that they might not be able to access medical treatment in the overwhelmed hospital systems of the US and England, and she knew that if her children needed her, she’d have no way of getting to them.
Now, though, it’s a different story. A beaming Annabel has her 27-year-old daughter Rose with her at home in Wānaka, and son Sean, a junior doctor, is safe for now in London. After a terrifying year, the international cooking star simply couldn’t be happier.
“It’s just wonderful to have Rose here and I feel so incredibly lucky,” she says, sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with her stunning mini-me over a Zoom call from the lakeside home she shares with husband Ted Hewetson. “Last year was horrible, actually. I felt really helpless a lot of the time.”
Today Annabel, 63, and Rose are make-up free and relaxed in jeans, casual T-shirts and sneakers. It’s a far cry from the day before, when they gamely played dress-ups in a slew of gorgeous designer dresses for our much-anticipated photo shoot. Covid lockdowns haven’t made the logistics easy, but the patient pair are all smiles as we chat through our screens. They’re talking to us about , a joint cookbook that rose out of the ashes of
