A BUZZY EXPERIENCE
Words: VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Images: supplied Did you know around one third of our food comes as a direct result of honeybee pollination? Honeybees can fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second! They can detect nectar two kilometres away and fly up to 5 kilometres. […]
CREATING A COMMUNITY
Words: LIZ FRENCH | Images: BRYDIE THOMPSON Dry Dock Cafe recently celebrated its tenth birthday. An achievement it shares with Nourish magazine and even more worthy of celebration when the cafe, just like Nourish, has been under the same owner for the entire ten years. Nourish magazine’s interview with Dry Dock Cafe owner Sandra Johnson […]
STAY A WHILE AT FALLS RETREAT
Words: VICKI RAVLICH-HORAN | Images supplied Just over eight years ago I started to hear about this amazing restaurant in the Karangahake Gorge. No matter how I connived work trips or weekend jaunts I just never managed to get there. Then I heard they had accommodation and had the perfect solution. I sold the weekend […]
PIOPIO’S FAT PIGEON
Words: KATE UNDERWOOD | Images: ASHLEE DECAIRES If the Piopio gas station is the town bloodstream, the Fat Pigeon Cafe is undeniably the heartbeat of this small King Country village. Amidst the thriving rural township sits an inviting, quirky space guaranteed to brighten the long road trip between the Waitomo Caves and the Taranaki Coast. […]
MEET THE MEYERS
Words: DENISE IRVINE | Images: BRYDIE THOMPSON On this Tuesday afternoon, Fieke and Ben Meyer are drinking tea at their dining table, looking out to picture-perfect green farmland where a herd of cows meanders up the race to be milked. In a few months’ time, Fieke and Ben may be sitting at the same table, […]
TE KOI
Words: DENISE IRVINE Ali Metcalfe cooks Fish Dorothea for dinner on my first night at the award-winning luxury lodge she and husband Ian own near Nelson. She fries onion in butter, adds orange roughy fillets, gently poaches them in white wine, and slips in some tomatoes. Her simple, fragrant fish dish reaches back into 1970s […]
Sharing Produce
Words: Denise Irvine | Images: Vicki Ravlich-Horan I was down to my last lemon in the coronavirus lockdown and this seemed like the most enormous culinary crisis. Almost any dish benefits from the magic of citrus, and I always get anxious when my tree hits its seasonal gap and I’m willing the green fruit to […]
Digging into the World of Onions
Words and images: Vicki Ravlich-Horan One of the earliest cultivated crops, onions are grown and eaten throughout the world. While almost every country grows onions, many run short of their domestic crop just as the New Zealand harvest is underway. This places New Zealand in a great position to export this crucial crop with us […]
The Humble Onion
Words: Rachel Hart Without a doubt, one of the most important ingredients in a cook’s arsenal is the humble onion. The world’s most universal food, onions are sautéed with garlic, slow cooked and caramelised, marinated in vinegar or thinly sliced to add flavour, depth and crunch to our meals. Onions are part of the allium […]
Wild About Flavour
Words: Kate Underwood | Image: Brydie Thompson In the eye of Rotorua lies a cafe where a passion for hunting, people and flavour come together to support and sustain the diverse village of locals and visitors, seven days a week. Dana and Steven Greer are the heartfelt humans behind Scope, the quirky daytime eatery where […]