A pandemic pivot to pavlova: all hail Melbourne's Pav Queen
Advertisement Nerida McPherson doesn't have a sweet tooth and had never made a pavlova until four months ago. Yet she has found an unlikely new career making the classic Australian dessert. Pandemic pivot: Nerida McPherson with pavlovas she has made for Christmas orders. Credit:Chris Hopkins While many of us are winding down, Ms McPherson, aka the Pav Queen, is whipping up a storm in a Collingwood kitchen, with 100 orders to fill this week before Christmas Day. She said if you had told her a year ago that by the end of 2020 she would be running such a business, "I’d have said, 'It’s the m...