Robert Oliver is a New Zealand chef who was raised in Fiji and Samoa.  He has developed restaurants in New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Sydney, “farm to table” resorts in the Carribean and food programs feeding homeless people and African immigrants with AIDS in New York City.

Robert returned to the South Pacific to write his first cookbook with a development mission to connect Pacific agriculture to the region's tourism sector.  Me'a Kai The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific stunned the food world by winning top prize, Best Cookbook in the World 2010, at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris.  

Robert is the Executive Director and Founder of Pacific Island Food Revolution, a television-media-led movement across the South Pacific designed to return the region to traditional cuisine in an effort to curb the Pacific’s NCD crisis.

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