Over the past 50 years our tastes have grown for softer, sweeter, easier foods. Unfortunately, this means that we waste more of the food we cultivate. For example, we eat more chicken breast than any other part of the chicken. (Journalist Felicity Lawrence has some powerful examples in her book “Not on the label.”) As …
What a great way to have a conversation with customers! Trade Aid develops products, such as this chocolate sauce, with its Fair Trade ingredients. Using QR codes and the ‘Test kitchen’ label, it and for our feedback on the product. Trade Aid, I love your ingenuity in creating community engagement. It feels like we have …
There’s a lot to love about Café Mimosa in central Takapuna. The kooky decor. The wonderful smells. The friendly welcome that staff never fail to give. But most of all there’s the food. It’s food that’s good, in more ways than one. Many cafés pay lip service to organic options and dietary restriction needs. Mimosa’s …
Kialla organic millers have organised a “livestream eBake” with Gillian ‘cake girl’ Bell for this Sunday 8th December. In case that doesn’t sound appealing, don’t worry, you do actually get real cake at the end. To take part in this social media baking, go to: http://kiallafoods.com.au/bake-along/ Continue reading
Some days everything goes smoothly, some days are a challenge. And then there are the days that need cake. Here is my recipe for ‘feel better’ cake. It’s moist and sweet and guaranteed to make you and up to five friends feel better. How to make date and apple cake 1 cup dates, chopped (scissors … Continue reading
Good on bread millionaire Ron Shaich and Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman for living on a food stamp allowance and talking about the experience. And good on the Three Squares Food Bank for organising it. (See Spence Cooper’s article to read the full story.) It’s a frustrating truth that you can get more unhealthy food … Continue reading
Big Fair Bake is an awesome competition to get people to use Fair Trade ingredients. It’s all about the sharing: to enter, you bake using some Fair Trade products, and then take pictures of you and your friends enjoying them. Entries must be in by tomorrow, Tuesday 10th September. So get baking! My experience I … Continue reading
The excitement of America’s Cup race day has been immortalised in a large chocolate sculpture of the Emirates Team New Zealand racing catamaran. The 82cm high sculpture is breathtaking. It will be put on display today at the Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum. It forms part of the famous Museum’s 20th anniversary celebrations. In pure … Continue reading
The Greedy Kiwi 