It’s Not PR But the 3Rs
Plastic, it’s literally everywhere! It’s wrapped around our food, it’s in our clothing, our carpets, and now it’s on our oceans and our food chain. The invention of plastic in the early 1900s was an environmental breakthrough, replacing the unstainable use of animal and wood products like ivory and tortoiseshell. By the 1960s plastic had […]
Cooking Up a Book
They say the best way to eat an elephant is one mouthful at a time. When we embarked on the challenge of creating our latest cookbook it felt like an elephant size task – thankfully the mouthfuls were a lot tastier. The chatter from Nourish fans about a possible cookbook was growing louder, so last […]
What We Do with Dukkah
I’ve never been confident in the spelling of dukkah. But I learnt the hard way that if you spell it as ‘dukkha’ in a google search, you will be inundated with information about the Buddhist concept of dukkha, which translates to ‘suffering’, as opposed to the Egyptian spice mix that I’m talking about. The word […]
Hamilton CBD Signature Dish Trail
What a Waste
Every year the average Kiwi household sends 89kgs of edible food to landfill. This figure does not include food scraps that can’t be eaten, like egg shells and banana peels. It also doesn’t include food wasted at the source or through our supply chain i.e. what producers, distributors, supermarkets and restaurants throw away. The problem […]
It’s Time to Party
Words Vicki Ravlich Horan “There is a real appetite for people to get together and party,” says Lisa Quarrie. I’m sitting with Lisa and Marie Corkill to talk about the trends they are seeing in events at the moment. Marie owns Royal Laboratorie and offers a boutique alternative to the event hire and design […]
What I Do with Tahini
There’s a good chance that if you’ve made hummus at home before, you have a jar of tahini lying around in the fridge. But have you thought of how else to use it? I asked a few of my local insiders about how they use tahini. Tahini is a smooth paste made from grinding hulled […]
What I Do With Miso
Words Harriet Boucher Miso is one of those ingredients that you buy for a recipe that you desperately want to try, make it once, and then the jar sits in the fridge staring at you, wanting you to whip it out again for its next culinary use. We spoke to some local chefs for inspiration […]
The Joy Of Watering By Hand
It is a gardener’s lot to spend half the year fretting about too much rain and the other half fretting about the lack of it. Hand-watering can’t be hurried. There’s nothing to be done but to stand still, to feel the water fall through your fingers, to hear the splats and splashing sounds it makes […]
A Few Halloween Treats
While Halloween is not traditionally celebrated in New Zealand, it is harder and harder to avoid it if you have young children in the family. While we get in the spirit of Halloween I draw the line at knocking on strangers doors trick or treating. Instead we make the treats and then knock on the […]