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The intersection of food and design
Kiwi Foodcast - July 07, 2021 18:00 - 59 minutesToday 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 mean when we say something we eat is sustainable? How can food design invigorate our relationship with the food we put into our mouth? Lets chat...
Wellington's Not-So Secret Ramen Popup
Kiwi Foodcast - June 24, 2021 18:00 - 40 minutesWelcome 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 by storm, Townhouse Ramen. Kevin’s ramen journey began in 2016 with a trip to Japan. But he is actually a systems analyst by day and not a chef! H...
Handcrafted "bread" for the Keto Lifestyle
Kiwi Foodcast - June 11, 2021 04:25 - 39 minutesJulie 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 feel. The sleep was better, she had more energy and of course, the weight loss was a bonus. She did miss eating ice cream though. And pizza! "Wh...
Teaching 50,000 Kiwis how to cook Asian food
Kiwi Foodcast - May 26, 2021 18:00 - 42 minutesSachie 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 surprised with the size...not of the country but with the size of vegetables here. In Japan, a capsicum may be the size of an egg while here it's mo...
Mons Flavours: Making Food Colourful
Kiwi Foodcast - May 05, 2021 18:00 - 44 minutesMonisha's journey cooking and eating fresh, healthy food started long before she joined Instagram. In India, she worked as a naturopath, as an aerobic instructor and a yoga teacher. Life changed when her family and she decided to move to New Zealand. They began their journey in Invercargill whe...
Beef Jerky that won't Survive a Bomb Blast
Kiwi Foodcast - April 14, 2021 18:00 - 31 minutesAsh 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 determined to replicate those flavours and used a home dehydrator to try making his own jerky. It took him hundreds of attempts to get the balance perfe...
Going Beyond Butter Chicken
Kiwi Foodcast - March 24, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutesWhen 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 leftovers. "What's that, butter chicken?", my Kiwi friends would ask while I waited near the microwave for my food to be heated. My eyes would roll...
A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
Kiwi Foodcast - March 17, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutesJayshri 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 love language. Jayshri didn't learn how to cook Indian food until she left home to study. She would try calling her mum to ask her how to cook so...
A Food Factory Like No Other!
Kiwi Foodcast - March 10, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutesThe FoodBowl is for food entrepreneurs what the Willy Wonka Chocolate factory was for kids. Supported by Callaghan Innovation and run by the Auckland chapter of the NZ Food Innovation Network, the FoodBowl is an open access facility whose core business is to increase the value of New Zealand's ...
Its Super Shiok la!
Kiwi Foodcast - March 03, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutesAdlena 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 sticky taffy like pudding) as well as having Tau Huay (soy bean pudding sweetened with ginger and vanilla) for breakfast every weekend at the local ...
The Father (and Son) of all Pies
Kiwi Foodcast - February 25, 2021 17:00 - 28 minutesNew 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, they are just about everywhere and for us Kiwis, the ultimate comfort food. The Kiwi pie is famous mainly because of our pastry. Back in 1981, ...
Cow to Cone, an Ice Cream maker that’s Different
Kiwi Foodcast - February 18, 2021 02:12 - 30 minutesSince 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 export their premium icecreams to Singapore and Australia. Made using real milk, real cream and in most cases local fruit, Appleby Farms Icecream i...
Keep Calm and Curry On
Kiwi Foodcast - February 10, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutesIndika 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 Srilanka, "it was like home, just without the coconut trees". Today, he owns his own food truck, Indy's Curry pot which serves up delicious Sril...
Your Silent Business Partner
Kiwi Foodcast - January 27, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutesNew 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 and owning a profitable hospitality business that lasts a long time is notoriously difficult. That's where the Restaurant Association comes in. ...
FoodStarter: 1 to 1000 in One Year?
Kiwi Foodcast - January 21, 2021 00:49 - 50 minutesStarting 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 shelves and hit the bigtime. But, what if you had the opportunity to go from 1 - 1000 fast? If all the doors that you needed opening for your busines...
Twenty Appliances or One Thermomix?
Kiwi Foodcast - January 14, 2021 00:18 - 34 minutesHow 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 owns a yogurt maker that’s still in its box) to help you with some of the kitchen drudgery or to help you make more exciting meals only to have it ...
Lipsmacking Japanese Gyoza
Kiwi Foodcast - December 16, 2020 17:00 - 30 minutesAkemi 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 to eat and her Grandmum would always make them for her as long as Akemi helped her. As a result, Akemi learnt what went into the perfect gyoza and ...
A New Approach to Kai
Kiwi Foodcast - December 09, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutesThe 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 served and shared in a way that enables healthy lifestyles. A collective is made up Roots Creative Entrepreneurs, Kai Tupuna, Taiohi Whai Oranga and...
The Secret to Delicious Baking
Kiwi Foodcast - December 02, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutesClare 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 can be. They also know how busy life can get and recognized that while we’d all like a plate of treats to share baking from scratch can be tediou...
The Magic of Bread and Butter
Kiwi Foodcast - November 26, 2020 03:29 - 1 hourBread and Butter are a Ponsonby based bakery and cafe that specialises in traditional European foods and naturally leavened bread made using organic ingredients. Curiously Isabel Pasch, the owner of Bread and Butter is neither a baker now a pastry chef. She is actually a trained microbiologist ...
Everyone’s Got to Eat
Kiwi Foodcast - November 19, 2020 04:23 - 55 minutesConnie Clarkson has been cooking food and writing about it for a large part of her life. After operating Auckland’s French Café, contributing to Metro magazine, writing a cookbook and even being a judge, she now is the Head of Commercial Place Operations at Auckland’s Panuku Development. Connie ...
The World’s Smartest Drink
Kiwi Foodcast - November 11, 2020 17:00 - 50 minutesMany 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 at home. Various coffee and energy drink brands have built their fortunes on the back of this need for flow. Though, as we are finding out now, ...
Crafting Premium New Zealand Honey
Kiwi Foodcast - November 04, 2020 17:00 - 43 minutesUnlike 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 premium, native New Zealand honey. Co-founders Sri Govindaraju, Sunil Pinnamaneni and Robin de Gues are passionate about honey and believe that peop...
Magic of The First Table
Kiwi Foodcast - October 28, 2020 17:00 - 33 minutesInspiration for First Table sparked when Mat Weir discovered a new approach to dining that he’d never come across before. Tucked away in Queenstown, New Zealand, was a small French restaurant offering 50% off their first table of the night. By discounting the ‘first table’ the restaurant could b...
The Best Dumplings in Town
Kiwi Foodcast - October 22, 2020 05:43 - 43 minutesThe 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 fried rice and have brought a unique twist to the Asian food scene in NZ with their Dumplings & Slaw, Noodle Salad Bowls and Stuffed Bao’s. After servin...
Te Puna: Auckland's New(ish) Local Market
Kiwi Foodcast - October 14, 2020 17:00 - 37 minutesThere’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 eight months to get to business as usual mode. Kai West is the group behind the birth of the Te Puna market. Kai West is a collaboration between He...
Eat With Me, at My Home
Kiwi Foodcast - October 07, 2020 17:00 - 46 minutes“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 Cesar Chavez At Eat with Me, Archana cooks for you and you eat in her dining room or she will come cook for you at yours. From the stock to the salad to th...
No Such Thing as Too Much Cheese
Kiwi Foodcast - September 30, 2020 17:00 - 41 minutesSue 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 with cheese at the center. Sue has always loved cheese. Living in Waikato, she has been surrounded with the perfect dairying conditions for more...
The Tale of a Food Truck Collective
Kiwi Foodcast - September 23, 2020 18:00 - 40 minutesMaggie 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 started a food truck just after she became a Mum. She wanted flexibility on the job and the ability to work around her kids’ needs, something her corp...
Giving Wings to Food Entrepreneur Dreams
Kiwi Foodcast - September 16, 2020 18:00 - 41 minutesInspired by La Cocina in San Francisco – one of the most successful kitchen incubators in the United States – The Kitchen Project is a partnership set up by Auckland’s urban regeneration agency, Panuku Development Auckland and Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) with suppor...
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