Twelve Questions: Peter Gordon  Chef Peter Gordon left New
Zealand at the age of 21 and now owns restaurants in Auckland
(Sugar Club, Bellota) and London (Providores, Kopapa). He has
written seven books, many columns and stars in a new TV3 series
about feasting on marae.  Peter Gordon says he had one of the
best childhoods of anyone he knows. Photo / Brett Phibbs  1. How
would you describe the Wanganui of your childhood?  When I tell
people I grew up in Wanganui they ask me if I went to [Wanganui]
Collegiate. I say no, Castlecliff. It's a bit of a jaw dropper
that, Castlecliff Primary. I had a fantastic childhood. My
parents divorced when I was 4 and I think I was the only kid at
school with divorced parents. Mum moved to live in Auckland and
every school holidays we'd go up there. It seemed really flash.
She and her husband ran a pharmacy. It was all a long way from
my Wanganui homelife so we had these great two lives.  2. Was it
difficult growing up without your mum?  She lost custody of us
four kids but th