Articles about people and what they do
Over the last year or so there has been a shuffling of chairs in the local wine scene, mainly with winemakers moving to new opportunities with other producers. When Tony Southgate decided it was time to move on from his…
In 2005 Annette Meyer, who is originally from Switzerland, came to New Zealand to “milk cows and experience the Kiwi way of life”. She was so entranced with this country she came back a few years later and is still…
Regular readers of this column will know about my love of wine and good food, but what about other drinks? Just as not everyone likes wine, I don’t like gin, I don’t know why but I just don’t like it.…
There is a very cool cooking competition happening right around New Zealand right now, it challenges kids from years five and six to create dishes using every part of their chosen fruit or vegetable and they can in to win…
Published in the Nelson Mail 07.11.18 The rise of the TV cooking shows over the last decade or so has resulted in home cooks improving their skills in the kitchen and investing in all sorts of new gadgets, however the…
Published in the Nelson Mail 08.08.18 Ask any producer and they will tell you making a product is the easy part, selling it is another matter altogether and that is where Tony Downing and the team at Downing Creative shine.…
Published in the Nelson Mail 13.06.18 I have acknowledged regularly that Marlborough wineries are the backbone of New Zealand’s wine industry, they provide the coat tails that other New Zealand regions travel on when entering international marketplaces and there is…
If you stop and think about the machine behind every item of food you buy, whether it be something from the supermarket shelf of a plate of exceptional food at a restaurant, there is one company that I can guarantee…
“Ask yourself what is correct ethically and aesthetically, and then what is useful economically; something is right if it helps to preserve the integrity, the stability and the beauty of the ecological community.” Aldo Leopold. This is the opening…