Food and cultural identity with Mafi Funaki-Tahifote

How to Thrive: Mind & Body Wellbeing for the Modern Woman

English - October 12, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB
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Welcome back to the All Things Food podcast. This week host Nickie Hursthouse has a talanoa (conversation) with Mafi Funaki-Tahifote about all things food and cultural identity.

Mafi is one of the few Tongan dietitians in New Zealand and one of the very few dietitians with an MBA. Mafi has spent her career working as a dietitian and in senior leadership roles with a sole purpose of improving nutrition and physical activity amongst Pasifika people and especially in Pasifika heart health.

Mafi currently works in partnership with Dr Julie Wharewera-Mika as Heads of MAS Foundation with a purpose of improving health and wellbeing equity in Aotearoa.

This episode covers:

What food means to Mafi and her familyHow food traditions vary across the different pacific islandsCrossing cultures as a health professionalFood as part of cultural identity

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