From the accounting world to writing recipes, Linda Duncan had one purpose when she set out to write her cookbooks: simplicity. That purpose drove her to write five cook cookbooks, her latest being The World’s Easiest Recipes: Five Ingredients . Duncan started her recipe journey seven years ago as a self-published author and to date she has sold about 120,000 copies of her first four volumes, helping people simplify their cooking.

For her latest book, she was approached by Harper Collins Publishers to write one for them. She told the Taupō & Tūrangi Herald her inspiration was to write cookbooks anyone could pick up and start cooking from..