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University of Otago.
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Alison Holst
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Her first television programme premiered in 1965. The following year she published her first cookbook. Since then (as of 2010) her cookbooks have collectively sold more than four and a half million copies of 100 titles, and she has appeared on numerous other television and radio shows as well as writing newspaper columns and magazine articles
She describes the style of food in most of her books as "everyday food" and the recipes are generally written for home cooks and intended to be easy and reasonably cheap to make, as well as nutritious.
Since 1994 she has marketed a brand of bulk wholefoods under the name "Alison"s Choice" through the Foodstuffs supermarket company. She then began lecturing in the Foods Department at the School of Home Science before starting her television career.
In 1997 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Otago. In November 2010 Holst appeared on Radio New Zealand"s afternoon programme to deny rumours that she had been asked to be the next Governor General of New Zealand.
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In the 1983 Queen"s Birthday Honours she received the Queen"s Service Medal for services to the community and in the 1987 New Year Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to home science. In the 2011 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
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New Zealand