Kiwi Foodcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The intersection of food and design
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the show we are talking about food as a whole and the concept of food design with Jane Armour-Raudon. What is food design exactly? What do we...
Wellington's Not-So Secret Ramen Popup
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome again to the Kiwi Foodcast. Today on the show we have Kevin Ngadisastra, one half of the duo behind the Popup that has been taking Wellington ...
Handcrafted "bread" for the Keto Lifestyle
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Gillingham was a dental hygienist when she fell in love with the keto lifestyle. After giving birth to two children, she loved how keto made her...
Teaching 50,000 Kiwis how to cook Asian food
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sachie came to New Zealand after graduating high school, mainly to speak English. What was she most surprised with on coming here? She says, "I was su...
Mons Flavours: Making Food Colourful
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Monisha's journey cooking and eating fresh, healthy food started long before she joined Instagram. In India, she worked as a naturopath, as an aerobic...
Beef Jerky that won't Survive a Bomb Blast
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ash Razmi was on a trip in the States when he tasted his first quality craft beef jerky and couldn’t get enough. After he came back home he was dete...
Going Beyond Butter Chicken
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When my mum and I moved to New Zealand, I was always the odd one out at school. Other kids brought sandwiches while mum always packed me some Indian l...
A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jayshri was born in New Zealand. However, she grew up eating primarily Gujarati food at home. For her mum, like many Indian mums, food was the primary...
A Food Factory Like No Other!
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The FoodBowl is for food entrepreneurs what the Willy Wonka Chocolate factory was for kids. Supported by Callaghan Innovation and run by the Auckland...
Its Super Shiok la!
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adlena Wong grew up in Singapore. Her mix of Chinese, Indonesian and Malaysian heritage meant that she grew up eating a lot of sambal and dodo's (a st...
The Father (and Son) of all Pies
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New Zealanders spend more than $118million annually on pies consuming close to 66 million pies a year. From a gas station to a supermarket to a bistro...
Cow to Cone, an Ice Cream maker that’s Different
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since selling their first scoop in December 2017, they've now built their own creamery in Nelson, won a whole bunch of awards for their icecream and e...
Keep Calm and Curry On
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indika came for a day visit to Waiheke when he had just moved to New Zealand. He loved it so much he decided to start living there. For someone from S...
Your Silent Business Partner
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
New Zealand's hospitality industry is worth more than $11 billion and as of 2019 employed close to 130,000 people. Yet as many of us know, succeeding ...
FoodStarter: 1 to 1000 in One Year?
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starting and growing a food business is a long, hard hustle. There are many hoops to jump through before you can get your product on those grocery she...
Twenty Appliances or One Thermomix?
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How often have you been cooking in the kitchen and wished you had a second pair of hands? Or perhaps you bought a gadget (I’m sure someone else also...
Lipsmacking Japanese Gyoza
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Akemi grew up in Osaka, Japan savouring her grandmother’s pork and chive dumplings or gyoza as the Japanese call them. Gyoza was her favourite thing...
A New Approach to Kai
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Papatoetoe Food Hub is a community-driven project that aims to nurture and develop new approaches to food. They are reimagining how food can be se...
The Secret to Delicious Baking
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clare Gallagher and Lauren Taylor have seven kids between them. They believe in the magic of home baking but know firsthand how messy baking with kids...
The Magic of Bread and Butter
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bread and Butter are a Ponsonby based bakery and cafe that specialises in traditional European foods and naturally leavened bread made using organic...
Everyone’s Got to Eat
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Connie Clarkson has been cooking food and writing about it for a large part of her life. After operating Auckland’s French Café, contributing to Me...
The World’s Smartest Drink
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us covet flow in our busy lives, that optimum state when your brain is focused, and you are able to create magic at work, in your studies, or ...
Crafting Premium New Zealand Honey
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unlike a lot of food companies that start with the goal of conquering the local NZ market, Zealandia Honey was born out of international demand for p...
Magic of The First Table
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inspiration for First Table sparked when Mat Weir discovered a new approach to dining that he’d never come across before. Tucked away in Queenstown,...
The Best Dumplings in Town
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Rolling Pin brings a unique twist to South East Asian cuisine. They wanted to show Kiwi’s that there is more to Asian food that noodles and frie...
Te Puna: Auckland's New(ish) Local Market
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new-ish farmers’ market in Auckland, the Te Puna market in Henderson. While the market launched in February this year, it has taken them...
Eat With Me, at My Home
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“If you really want to make a friend go to someone’s house and eat with him…the people who give you their food give you their heart” - Chef Ce...
No Such Thing as Too Much Cheese
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Arthur thought Over the Moon Dairy would be a great retirement project of sorts. What she ended up starting was not one but two amazing businesses...
The Tale of a Food Truck Collective
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Gray came to NZ on an OE, worked with Mastercard during the Rugby World Cup and then fell in love with the place. Somewhat unusually, she start...
Giving Wings to Food Entrepreneur Dreams
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by La Cocina in San Francisco – one of the most successful kitchen incubators in the United States – The Kitchen Project is a partnership...
Cookware worth Inheriting
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Carter and Kate Slavin have both always been intrigued by culture and wanted to be a part of creating something that stood the test of time. In an...
Chatting with a first generation Chiwi
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enna is a first generation ‘Chiwi’, a New Zealand born Chinese. She grew up having a ‘Kiwi life’ and a ‘home life’ and the only way she co...
Foodprint: Cheap Meals, Less Waste
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In New Zealand, cafes, restaurants and supermarkets produce 50,000 tonnes of food waste. Over 60% of this is completely avoidable. Michal Garvey is a ...
Rescuing good food with Kiwi Harvest
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Manning, Founder of Kiwi Harvest originally trained to be a lawyer. Her ‘aha’ moment for Kiwi Harvest came when she was looking for opport...
Has organic food gone mainstream?
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo is CEO of NZ owned and operated, Chantal Organics. Chantal Organics started as a family run food co-op over 40 years ago in 1978 when a group of...
Everybody Eats, a unique pay-what-you-feel restaurant
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Johnston is the Head Chef at Everybody Eats, a restaurant like no other. Everybody Eats delivers restaurant quality three course meals that are...
Let’s Get Fed
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Having grown up in the UK, Becky Erwood has been a long-time consumer of frozen (and fresh) ready to eat meals. It’s a mature market overseas and th...
Who stole the cookie dough?
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Katie Portmann is a Canadian who now calls New Zealand home. Her favourite memories are of baking cookies with her mum (or rather of stealing a bowlfu...
For the love of street food
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Hershman trained to be a chef at a really young age. He left the world of hospitality for the corporate life only to start a food truck twenty ye...
Pita, The Ultimate Street Food
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carmel Davidovitch is a Kiwi that grew up is Israel. She remembers eating hot, fresh falafel at hole-in-the wall Israeli joints as a child and seeking...
Smoked Ribs & Cooking for the Super Rich
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Croydon’s on a mission to educate Kiwis on how a well-cooked rib should look and taste and is the only person to be doing dry rubbed ribs in Aucklan...
Self-Publishing Food Memories: Pass it On Cookbook
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mother-daughter duo Keryn & Shobha Kalyan are New Zealand born Gujarati’s. Shobha’s grandparents were one of the first Gujarati families to arriv...
Online Farmers Markets, our new normal?
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christchurch based Hamish and Suzy Hutton had been working on their online farmers’ market platform, Maker2u for a while before the onset of coronav...
The Prince of Peanut Butter
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former lawyers Roman and Andrea Jewell started Fix & Fogg a week before their first boy was born. After failed attempts at cheese making and beer brew...
Welcome to the Kiwi Foodcast with Perzen Patel
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when we share our food with those around us? Today, the NZ food scene is thriving and our butter chicken is as Kiwi as a steak and cheese...