Samoan-Kiwi chef Monica Galetti spent her childhood checking on how the pineapples were growing and picking guavas and mangoes on her family’s lush plantation, filled with taro and cacao trees, with chickens running wild around her.
“A relative would show up, catch a fish, it was very much a sharing culture, my family lived in close proximity to each other,” says MasterChef: The Professionals judge.
