Answer the following question: What type of details about alison holst can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: dame alison margaret holst -lrb- nee payne , born 1938 -rrb- , is a best-selling new zealand food writer and television chef . her first television programme premiered in 1965 . the following year she published her first cookbook . since then -lrb- as of 2010 -rrb- her cookbooks have collectively sold more than four and a half million copies of 100 titles , and she has appeared on numerous other television and radio shows as well as writing newspaper columns and magazine articles . she describes the style of food in most of her books as ' everyday food ' and the recipes are generally written for home cooks and intended to be easy and reasonably cheap to make , as well as nutritious . since 1994 she has marketed a brand of bulk wholefoods under the name ' alison 's choice ' through the foodstuffs supermarket company . holst graduated from the university of otago , then a constituent college of the university of new zealand , with a bachelor of home science and subsequently spent a year at teachers ' college . she then began lecturing in the foods department at the school of home science before starting her television career . in the 1983 queen 's birthday honours she received the queen 's service medal for services to the community and in the 1987 new year honours she was made a commander of the order of the british empire for services to home science . in 1997 she was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from the university of otago . since 1990 she has co-written several cookbooks with her son simon holst . in november 2010 holst appeared on radio new zealand 's afternoon programme to deny rumours that she had been asked to be the next governor general of new zealand . in the 2011 new year honours , she was appointed a dame companion of the new zealand order of merit .
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