I have exciting news. Today we launch our first podcast Cuisine Bites and take you beyond the pages of our beautiful magazine and our digital platforms to experience the stories behind our food and drink through the intimacy of audio. You hear a lot of incredible stories when you record a podcast.
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Making it more human again
Hospitality can be a glorious career choice. Many young people are attracted to the hospitality world for the sense of family and belonging that it can provide. However, when restaurants and customers fail to deliver, these young employees can find themselves working within a dysfunctional hospitality family.
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Be our guest – Xmas Classics
There’s a touch of nostalgia about this collection of favourite recipes from cuisine food writers past and present.
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Whey to go
A perfect piece of cheese is a simple pleasure and NZ cheesemakers work tremendously hard, with passion and dedication, to give us that.
SOME OF OUR LATEST RECIPES
SOME OF OUR LATEST FEATURES
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View to a Tipple
If you are a visitor to Queenstown you will find yourself on the magnificent lakefront – it’s what you do in Queenstown. And once there, you can’t miss the glorious, palatial façade of Eichardt’s Private Hotel, dating back to 1867. It’s a significant local landmark, born as a result of the rich vein of gold that attracted many prospectors and opportunists from around the world to the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
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Ice Work
If you thought making your packed lunches was complicated, spare a thought for Chef Stephen Fairie.
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Feast
There has been a lot of talk about New Zealand food stories recently. About the connective power of food and its potential to foster a deeper sense of place and identity.
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Great Wine, Naturally
New Zealand’s first ever Organic Wine Week (17-23 September 2018) will see organic wine producers teaming up with six of the country’s leading restaurants – The Grove in Auckland, Shepherd in Wellington, Bistronomy in Hawke’s Bay, Arbour in Blenheim, Gatherings from Christchurch and Sherwood in Queenstown – to deliver some exciting organic wine and food experiences.
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I am
The question "What is New Zealand food?" is often asked and it’s tricky to answer. New Zealand’s food culture has evolved dramatically, but perhaps we will never have a ‘New Zealand cuisine’ as such. We are not bound by the time-honoured culinary traditions that bind so many other countries, leaving us free to create our own food identity.
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Up the Line
Imagine a magnificent day out tasting flavours and ingredients that you might never have tried before, mixing with people who are passionate and knowledgeable about premium food, and along the way hearing inspiring stories of determination, ingenuity, risk and innovation?
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Hear it First! Cuisine Bites launches today. Win with Madam Sass.
I have exciting news. Today we launch our first podcast Cuisine Bites and take you beyond the pages of our beautiful magazine and our digital platforms to experience the stories behind our food and drink through the intimacy of audio. You hear a lot of incredible stories when you record a podcast.
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This weekend / make confit chicken
Crisp confit chicken & potatoes with watercress, radicchio & orange salad Use some of the confit oil to toss with cubes of potato, add some thyme, season with salt and pepper and roast in the oven until golden.
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