The Feed

02/07/2025

Join Taste of Tours on their epic small group foodie tours of Sicily this September. Just a couple of spots left!

25/07/2024

The Feed is putting on its winter coat and heading out into the world. Happily there are plenty of food and drink centred things to do around Aotearoa in the coming days and week...

The pale winter sun is beginning to thaw the layer of icy mud that has collected over the hatch leading to The Feed's underground bunker, so there's no longer any way of avoiding it: we're going to have to go Outside. We know, we know, Outside doesn't like this anymore than we do, but we're

21/07/2024

Time for the Commerce Commision to step up....

The proposed merger of Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island raises the prospect of even less choice for New Zealanders in what is an already heavily concentrated market. But will regulators prevent it from happening? New Zealand currently has just three major supermarket entities: the...

19/07/2024

AUT’s Culinary Arts and Gastronomy Winter Series returns...

Unwrap the chocolate and break out the mead, AUT’s Culinary Arts and Gastronomy Winter Series is back to warm you up with all things food in 2024. From a MasterChef-like pastry competition to a slow food marketplace and exploring the intersection of food and pleasure, this popular series of foodie...

18/07/2024

Uneven inflation is having a serious impact on health outcomes in Aotearoa...

The rising price of food has been making headlines for the past decade. But prices have not been rising consistently across all food groups – and this has major health implications for New Zealanders. Last week Stats NZ released food price data showing the biggest drop in prices in six years. The ...

18/07/2024

What elevates a sandwich from the merely good to the sublime? Is a lobster roll a moral abomination? Is a taco a sandwich? David Wrigley asks the big questions and occasionally answers one.

News filters through to us at The Feed's damp but surprisingly homey underground bunker that the Great New Zealand Toastie Takeover is back for another year. Alas, this annual, pickle-slinger-sponsored celebration of the humble sandwich always fills this writer with a feeling of anxious ambivalence....

14/07/2024

Young New Zealand hospitality professionals are being encouraged to apply for the Visa NZ Hospitality Scholarship, valued at $30,000. The opportunity is now in its second year and aims to attract more young people in Aotearoa into the industry and support them to take up hospitality as a career. It....

12/07/2024

Is it time for a sugar tax?

There are renewed calls this week for the Australian government to implement a range of measures aimed at improving our diets. These include restrictions on junk food advertising, improvements to food labelling, and a levy on sugary drinks. This time the recommendations come from a parliamentary inq...

11/07/2024

Forget your beret and your baguette – get yourself a yellow hi-viz vest and a bottle Calvados...

Ah, the Fench. Despite everything, you've really got to hand it to a nation who's most important national holiday celebrates a prison riot. This Bastille Day, put aside the snooty waiters of popular legend, the recent flirtation with the far right, the terrible football, the 1999 and 2007 World Cups...

11/07/2024

Otis bringing the oats, agricultural diversity, and some much needed jobs to the motu...

About half a million litres of oat milk produced from premium South Island oats are rolling off a new production line in East Auckland this month - and Otis, the owners of New Zealand’s original oat milk brand, couldn’t be more thrilled. "It's taken us nearly five years to establish a first-of-i...

04/07/2024

Fried chicken is a dish loved around the world, but it was one particular American Colonel and his eleven secret herbs and spices that made the Southern American comfort food famous. The trick to making succulent moist chicken is to brine it first, and after much research and many trials, I discover...

03/07/2024

Otis bringing the oats, agricultural diversity, and some much need jobs to the motu...

About half a million litres of oat milk produced from premium South Island oats are rolling off a new production line in East Auckland this month - and Otis, the owners of New Zealand’s original oat milk brand, couldn’t be more thrilled. "It's taken us nearly five years to establish a first-of-i...