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
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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?
