Dane Archery

But East Auckland for us starts from GI, right?

The other side of the hill.

And then over the bridge.

Yeah, I think the big thing for me, well, it was like certain dominoes had to fall before we reached a point where it was like there's no turning back, you know what I mean?

And I worked with a Japanese guy called Kensuke Saito that was at Grove.

There we go.

Another top three restaurant.

And Ken was very big on talking about how food affected our health.

And then you get more into Japanese food and they hold chefs in that high regard because they're just realistic that we're producing something that someone's going to put in their body.

And we hold doctors in a high pedestal in the West, but the reality is that's fixing the problem when we could have not created the problem in the first place, you know?

And then through learning about that, and then I had struggles with depression myself, and then later on my brother was institutionalized with depression.

And my older brother, for those that don't know, was our weapon, like Captain Mount Abercrombie football.

and that's when our first 11 was in the top five teams in the country and i don't mean schoolboy teams i mean out in our football teams we're making the chatham cup semis year after year you know he's uh ran 100 meters under 11 seconds for someone who's five foot nine is like ridiculous there was a time he was the quickest over 100 out of school boys and the javelin record wow five foot nine

ridiculous like an athlete at mags he was like known as like the athlete you know what i mean and he's the year older than like sunny bill thomas all these dudes and then so i knew this dude that just won everything and then he was in couldn't see the points in being alive and then i saw him for the first time drugged and it was like and everyone was like so happy and i'm like what the

where's norm you know what i mean and from there i started to become obsessed with looking at because then they also gave him advice that he had to go gluten free and he said that was making one of the biggest changes for him and then that started me looking down those roads and eventually becoming obsessed with the microbiome and how food can affect every single system in our body and

i'm the sort of obsessive person once i start on something there's no stopping me unless i fall or unless i get new information that leads me in a different direction you know what i mean but at this point i think like for cooks the next step in this whole craziness of making chefs famous people is taking the responsibility that we're producing something that we're putting into someone's body and it's going to shape how they feel how they think how they behave and

at its essence can it like we look at the state of the world and people like oh the you know all the sickness all of this all of that and like global warming all these things and at the core of it is our food system you know what i mean like our food system our water system and our air those are the three essentials and global warming is

effing up our air quality by the same token global warming is being fucked up by food right like we don't have all these cows because they're pets we don't have farms that are like doing so much damage because they want to produce food quickly which is making worse food and a worse planet we're not doing this stuff for fun all of this stuff is to produce food but for some reason when we talk about it we don't look at the food

You know, it's food and fiber.

We're producing fiber to keep us warm, which we do need as well, particularly when you live where we live.