I enjoy cooking and whipping up easy to prepare wholesome meals, made with our beautiful fresh local produce. I haven’t enjoyed having to cover it with petroleum based cling film full of toxic phthalates and chemicals linked to cancers, hormone, and oestrogen problems though. And now I don’t need to as I’ve switched over to [...]
Kevin from FriendlyPak talks about the benefits of composting. Summer is almost upon us, we are planting and tending to our gardens and organising our compost systems at home. It’s wonderful that today, if we chose we are able to compost so much more of our household waste because of the many compostable and biodegradable [...]
We love this! Boutique New Zealand rum house Stolen Rum is serving an under-arm bowl to Australian Customs Authorities, by enlisting human ‘mules’ to smuggle its internationally award-winning new rum ‘SX9’ into Australia. Bypassing Australia’s strict ‘minimum-aging’ laws (which stipulate that rum must be aged in wood barrels for two years, some say to protect their [...]
Mexican food is “flavour of the month” right now, with new Mexican restaurants popping up all over the country. Now you can make your own tacos, wraps and burritos at home, using an exclusive range of authentic El Rancho tortillas, imported from California and now available from Cuisinescene. Up till now these top quality tortillas [...]
In our Summer edition of Nourish Waikato we meet the couple behind The Coromadel Brewery and talk to Brian Watson a man with a job many men would envy, a brewery consultant! Anyway the team have suddenly taken a keen interest in beer so were interested to hear about Rotoruas newest establishment Brew. Kiwis love drinking [...]
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Alexa Johnston is an interesting character. An art historian, who was the curator at the Auckland Museum for 20 years, Alexa was also responsible for bringing amazing exhibitions, like Hillary (The life of Sir Edmund Hillary) together. Her connection to Hillary continued in fact, and she published the amazing book on Sir Ed’s life. Alexa [...]