2013-05-09 09:25:31 // Andy Kenworthy
// Idealog #45: plus
The figures indicate that New Zealand has the ingredients to be a worthy contender on the global food export market. So what, exactly, constitutes the winning recipe, and what are the challenges we face as a minority?
2013-03-11 00:00:00 // Sim Ahmed
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Having Master Chef winner Nadia Lim as your personal recipe guide is many a home cook's dream and the idea behind a culinary startup kicking off today called My Food Bag. But at $180 a week for five meals per person a week, will the average New Zealander take a bite?
2013-02-12 16:42:51 // Esther Goh
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For the past five years, Down Under Bakery (DUB) Pies has been serving up Kiwi style pies and flat whites in the Big Apple from its Brooklyn cafe, and the next step is, of course, its very own food truck.
2013-02-08 09:26:56 // Idealog
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Chef-turned-businessman Sean Armstrong’s business Loaf is expanding to Australia in a multi-million dollar deal that will see its range of gourmet slices stocked in Coles supermarkets.
2013-01-17 10:11:07 // Amy Williams
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It’s an anxious time of year for kiwifruit growers as they wait to see if their newly planted vines will be able to withstand the virulent bacterial vine disease Psa-V.
2012-12-05 10:13:48 // Idealog
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As Professor Jacqueline Rowarth recently wrote in Primary, food security is rearing its head as a global issue, and New Zealand could play a leading role in addressing it. And Dr Daniel Franklin, executive editor of The Economist, shares that view.
2012-11-28 13:25:24 // Jacqueline Rowarth
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Populations are increasing, resources are being depleted, uncertainty in food production is escalating, and food security – access to enough – is a global issue.
2012-11-20 10:29:19 // Rebekah White
// Idealog #41: workshop
Giapo's Gianpaolo Grazioli sees sustainability and cold confection going hand in hand. (So do we!)
2012-11-19 09:23:23 // Josh Martin
// Idealog #41: now
Centrifuge technology is usually the domain of laboratories and blood donor centres, but it's at the core of Beemaxx's latest innovation.
2012-11-08 09:20:24 // Esther Goh
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We Kiwis love our chocolate, but our tastes aren't particularly sophisticated. Kiwi chocolatier and founder of The Sweetest Little Chocolate Shop Stu Jordan reckons New Zealand is at least two years behind Australia and almost a decade behind Europe in terms of premium chocolate trends.
2012-11-07 18:18:04 // Idealog
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The greening of Auckland city is underway, with an edible garden planned for Wynyard Quarter and two already established in Ponsonby and K Rd.
2012-10-26 10:21:15 // Esther Goh
// Idealog #42: features
Thanks to Oritain, a consumer can buy a piece of fruit in a German supermarket and track it back to the exact orchard it originated in.
2012-10-15 10:21:48
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Sidart culinary guru Sid Sahrawat cooks up a different storm every day in his aptly named Test Kitchen in Auckland's Ponsonby. We asked him to put his magic to work creating a special Idealog dish just for us.
2012-10-15 09:13:11
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Craig Hickson started working in the meat industry in 1970 when he was still a student. Today, he’s able to boast a long list of career achievements including founder and MD of innovative Hawkes Bay meat processor Progressive Meats and a slew of directorships.
2012-09-11 09:59:14 // David Paterson
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Our Pollinators In Chief are under threat. So what are we doing about protecting this flying national treasure and source of more than just something we spread on our bread? David Paterson shares the buzz.
2012-09-03 09:40:05 // Esther Goh
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Cookie Time Limited has been granted a patent for its One Square Meal product, based on the creation of a new class of food and beverage.
2012-08-03 11:23:34
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Behind every great company lies excellent business support. Just ask one of the 13,000 commercial beef or lamb farmers in New Zealand.
2012-07-23 14:46:15 // Idealog
Wellington's Anagenix Ltd, a nutritional product development company, has just announced a major distribution deal with US-based Stratum Nutrition.
2012-07-04 15:21:41 // Anthony Doesburg
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The world needs more food. And some believe the best way for New Zealand to get a piece of that pie is to learn from Silicon Valley. Anthony Doesburg visits the Waikato Innovation Park to see the model in action.
2012-05-11 12:49:28 // Hazel Phillips
// Idealog #39: interact
After noticing the explosion of artisan food and our thirst for more and more goodies, Greig Buckley decided to give it an e-commerce twist.
2012-04-10 17:08:12 // Idealog
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New Zealand Pork has a brand new initiative underway targeting consumers via in-store and online activity, including Facebook and YouTube, drawing on the star power of chef Simon Gault.
2012-03-22 17:08:19 // Owen Poland
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Imagine a leg of prime Kiwi lamb implanted with an edible Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag that has tracked its journey from pasture to plate. Imagine, too, if the consumer’s ‘plate’ could read the tag and thereby ‘pump out’ all sorts of information like calories or fat, details about the lamb’s ‘trading’ history and even food miles.
2012-03-20 17:15:37 // Lester Brown
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From the Middle East to Madagascar—and even closer to home—high prices are spawning land grabs and even toppling regimes. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
2012-03-20 17:11:17 // Dwight Whitney
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Dwight Whitney talks with New Zealand King Salmon's Grant Rosewarne about how an Icelandic volcano that grounded planes around the world allowed a local fish farm to soar.
2012-03-20 17:09:13 // Dwight Whitney
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Cutting edge research by a group of New Zealanders is changing the way we think about diet and, more significantly, what the farmers of the future will be producing.
2012-03-20 17:04:19 // Ben Fahy
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They’re good on pavlovas, or straight from the punnet. But research shows berries are also very good for the body. And, as Ben Fahy discovers, some savvy New Zealand growers are zeroing in on the increasingly lucrative ‘functional foods’ market.
2012-03-12 09:13:48 // Simon Pound
// Idealog #38: features
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It's a classic Kiwi story of little guy made good. And after being pitted against dairy giant Fonterra over perceived product similarities, the two blokes behind brand Nice Blocks are hanging off the back end of a tiger.
2011-09-08 14:16:24 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #35: features
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Vincent Heeringa eats ... and eats ... and eats, all in search of design-led food and beverages
2011-09-06 11:28:51 // StopPress Team
Silver Fern Farms and Bidvest are doing everything they can to get Kiwi meat into RWC visitors' gullets by supplying New Zealand-grown lamb, venison and beef to 138 leading restaurants around the country
2011-07-26 12:53:38 // Idealog
New Zealand fine food manufacturer has scored quite a haul at the prestigious 2011 Great Taste Awards in London, coming away with seven medals in total.
2011-07-21 15:32:28 // Sustain Team
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Bad news for a country with more sheep than humans: out of all the meats, lamb has the worst environmental impact of all.
2011-01-06 12:53:29 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #31: now
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Peter Gordon and partner Michael McGrath have embarked on their most ambitious venture yet: teaming up with fellow expats Brandon Allen and Adam Wills, founders of UK-wide Gourmet Burger Kitchen, to open Kiwi-themed restaurant Kopapa in the heart of London’s ultra-competitive West End. How will they sell that? And didn’t Gordon get the memo about food miles?
