225:, Flower is credited with helping New Zealanders move away from their traditional meat, potato and vegetable dinner, and was among those who popularised ingredients perceived as exotic, such as garlic, capsicum and avocado. When Flower retired from her role at the
246:, and wrote or edited a number of cookbooks. In 1982, she established the Star–Woman's Weekly School of Cooking. Flower was instrumental in the formation of the New Zealand Guild of Food Writers in 1988, and served as its inaugural chair.
286:, in a house that had been owned by her maternal grandparents. She continued to write and edit cookbooks, and mentored many New Zealand food writers. In 1998 she published her autobiography,
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Fenwick, Anne (4 April 1984). "Tui's turn to clear the table".
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The cooks' collection: recipes from New
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