About
Lulu
Photographer, writer, cookbook author, and founder of Secret Kiwi Kitchen — documenting life on the road through recipes, travel, photography, and stories.
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Press
Features, interviews and reviews. For enquiries, images or a bio, write tohello@laurenlulutaylor.com.
Palisadian-Post
Former Rustic Canyon Resident Brings New Zealand Baking To U.S.
2026
Radio New Zeland
Calling Home: Lulu Taylor from Mexico City
2026
The Feed
Next Generation Baking Mixes
2026
North Shore Times
A Cookbook From A Food Passion
2024
New Zealand Herald
Cooking the Books podcast: How two mums started a baking business with $1000, a home printer, and glue sticks
2023
RNZ · Nine to Noon
Real Thai food and how to replicate it in your kitchen
Radio interview with Chow Nualkhair and Lulu on Nine to Noon — how the two met through their daughters' school, and how they pulled a Thai cookbook together at a distance through Covid.
2023
Asia by the Book
Real Thai Cooking, reviewed
A long, admiring review of Real Thai Cooking — on Chow's essays, Thai regional cuisine and the case for street food.
2023
NZ Booklovers
Real Thai Cooking, reviewed
New Zealand review of Real Thai Cooking, including the detail that lockdown forced the recipes to be tested and photographed in a Devonport kitchen rather than in Thailand.
2023
Channel Magazine
Channel Magazine: Local Life Column by Lauren Lulu Taylor/ Kate Dobbin
2022
NZ Entreprenuer
Founder Focus: Secret Kiwi Kitchen
2022
The Expat Hub Podcast
The Expat Hub: Call Home
2022
Women’s Day/ New Zealand Herald
'Baking stopped us going broke'
2022
Prospra
Starting a business with a friend: the good, the bad, the beautiful
2021
Newshub
How two Kiwi mums turned a fully baked idea into a new business in middle of lockdown
2021
New Zealand Herald
The Pivot: Kiwi mums whip up a fully baked idea during Covid
2021
NZ Business Magazine
The Covid War Dairies: Survival Tactics Lauren Lulu Tayor
2021
Podcasts NZ
The Kiwi Foodcast: The Secret to delicious baking
2020
Radio New Zealand
The women launching their dream business during the pandemic
2020
Asia By The Book: Real Thai Food Review