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 How
to write effectively...
and why it matters !,
Tuesday 21st September; 1.30pm - 5.00pm
Central Room, The Conference Centre, 585 Great South Road, Penrose, Auckland
NZIFST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 2010
COURSE OUTLINE: We write every day and whether a one line email
or a several thousand word thesis it all matters. Your writing is the bridge
to communicating successfully. This workshop helps those with a technical background
take their writing to a new level. It shows participants how to turn evidence-based
information into user-friendly and appealing, but accurate, reading. It gives
skill-sharpening tips, tricks and techniques you can use every day, challenging
some of the well-established habits of scientific writing. Cutting the clutter
and losing the jargon, whilst still retaining scientific credibility, is the
key to being an effective nutrition communicator in this increasingly competitive,
information-dominated world. Writing is a necessity but writing well is an art
and an asset. This workshop helps participants discover how. "Fiona gave such
an interesting and practical session on how to write effectively. Her presentation
not only held our attention from start to finish, but was relevant and gave me
the confidence to put the skills into practice."
INTENDED AUDIENCE: This course is designed for ... Those people
with a technical background who want to take their writing to a
new level
COURSE FACILITATOR: Fiona Carruthers, Nutrition
Manager, Beef + Lamb New Zealand;
Freelance Food Writer.
Fiona Carruthers began her career as a dietitian in the UK, working in many areas
of dietetics from the 'womb to the tomb'. In 1998, Fiona become a marketing nutritionist
with responsibilities for a variety nutrition communication programmes, followed
by a short spell in healthcare public relations. She moved to New Zealand in
2001 to join Beef + Lamb New Zealand as Nutrition Manager. Fiona's experience
has produced an ability to utilise scientific knowledge appropriately in a wide
range of nutrition communications. As a result, she is also a freelance writer
and, in 2007, received an NZ Guild of Food Writers' Culinary Quill Award.
REGISTER NOW (Closes 15th September)
 More
info at www.nzifst.org.nz.
 10TH
ANNUAL FUNCTIONAL FOODS SYMPOSIUM:
Brains, Bounce & Baby Boomers
16 November 2010
Owen Glen Centre, University of Auckland,
Auckland, NZ.
The field of functional foods continues to grow in importance in
the food industry. Customers want 'healthier' foods: the challenge is to enhance
the bioactive, antioxidant or mood-enhancing potential of a food without reducing
its appeal, or making it too expensive. Baby boomers are the generation whose
zest for life makes them respond to the innovative developments coming from the
food and supplement industries in anti-ageing, maintenance of cognition, digestive
health, joint health and protection against chronic disease. It has been claimed
that maintaining good digestive health becomes important from age 40 onwards,
and prevention of cardiovascular risk from age 50. From age 60, maintaining flexible
and pain free joints and maintaining cognitive skills re increasingly the top
concerns of mature consumers around the world. We will follow some of these important
trends, with cutting edge research from New Zealand and overseas researchers,
plus contributions from the industry. For this year's conference, we are focusing
on functional foods for baby boomers. This doesn't mean we have ignored other
aspects of the area. Once again we will include the latest scientific developments
and go on to cover the practical business of creating marketable, functional
food products. Remember, this annual symposium is a networking goldmine, whether
you supply ingredients, or are engaged in new product development or research.
The Functional Foods Symposium is an initiative of The University of Auckland
and Plant and Food Research.
Registration
now open! http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sms/nutrition/ffood/
MORE EVENTS: What's On |
  Allpress
Espresso
In 1986, the love of traditional Italian espresso prompted Michael Allpress
to leave his career as a chef and establish one of New Zealand’s first
specialist espresso coffee companies, Allpress Espresso. Over the years Allpress
has grown to become one of New Zealand’s leading specialty coffee roasters,
and in two months the Auckland company will open a flagship roastery and espresso
bar in the East London district of Shoreditch. The Australian arm, which has been in operation for more than 10 years, is adding a second roastery in Melbourne to support the Sydney business.
Another New Zealand roastery, in Dunedin, is in the pipeline.
www.allpress.co.nz |
 Ginelli's
- gelato perfetto!
Award-winning Auckland gelato manufacturer Ginelli's has supplied
gelato and
frozen
desserts
to top-end restaurants, food service and retailers for almost 20 years. As well
as winning a Massey Food Award (in 2006), over
the
years
Ginelli's has featured strongly at
the
NZ
Ice
Cream
Awards,
with
over
50 gold and silver award-winning flavour combinations. This
summer
they
opened
their own
brand
new
retail outlet in Mission Bay, so now you can taste and buy thirty-six
of the 200-or-so flavours of gelato, sorbetto and premium ice cream that
they
supply into the hospitality industry, all in one place. And while you are there,
try
one
of
their
selection of home-made
patisseries
with a coffee or cold drink, for the complete
Mediterrannean experience.
 One
of the focal points of Ginelli's
high-tech imported display freezer is their
range
of unique,
beautifully crafted individual ice cream-based desserts -
Bella Cassata, Chocolate Revenge, Tiramisu Ice Cream, Tartufo Rossa, Tartufo
Caramello,
Bella
Rosa,
Fruiti Bellisimi, Dolce Vita, and Lemon Sorrento (pictured). These
spectacular single-serve
treats can also be purchased in boxes of 15, 18 or 25, depending on shape.
Ginelli's
- 55 Tamaki Drive, Mission Bay, Auckland. Ph: (09) 521 3532. For
more about Ginelli's and to download their full product list, visit www.ginellis.co.nz |
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NEWS: |
 Fears
the 'safe limit' for BPA is wrong
(2 Sep 10) The Australian authors of a study of BPA levels in tinned foods said
there is international evidence that the safe limit needs to be lowered. More.
MasterChef
joins judging panel in search for country’s top gourmet oil
(2 Sep 10) Entries are now open for the New Zealand Gourmet Oil Competition,
with New Zealand’s first ever MasterChef winner Brett
McGregor joining the judging panel. More.
 Prices
jump in latest Fonterra dairy auction
(2 Sep 10) The gDT-TWI index was up 16.9 % after the latest globalDairyTrade trading
event. More.
2010
Nutritionist Development Award winner announced
(31 Aug10) The New Zealand Nutrition Foundation and Kellogg
New Zealand have announced Helen
Eyles as winner of the 2010 Nutritionist Development Award.
More.
 Government
slashes red tape for Grocery sector
(31 Aug 10) ERMA's decision to change
packaging and labelling rules for laundry powder and cleaning products will save
the grocery sector many millions of dollars in unnecessary business compliance
costs and preserve manufacturing
in New Zealand, says the FGC. More.
New
editor for NZ Guild of Food Writers’ newsletter
(31 Aug 10) The new editor of the NZ Guild of Food Writers' online newsletter Pen & Palate, Renee
Lang, combines two passions - publishing
and cooking. More.
 Once
bitten, forever Smitten
(30 Aug 10) Prevar™ Limited today announced it has selected the trademark name
SMITTEN™ for the outstanding new PremA17 apple cultivar, and has sought registration
of this word and associated logo device in key apple markets. More.
Mapping
of apple genome sets scene for new types
(30 Aug 10) An international
consortium, which includes New Zealand's Plant and Food Research, has sequenced
the more than 600 million base pairs of DNA which make up the apple genome. More.
 Game
changer deal stirs up cocktail maker
(29 Aug 10) With a big UK distribution deal and a new investor under its belt,
Kiwi cocktail company VnC
Cocktails is expecting to more than triple its sales next year. More.
Martinborough
Pinot Noir takes top honours at this year’s Romeo Bragato Awards
(29 Aug 10) Cobblestone Te Muna Pinot Noir 2009, grown by Saul
Levine of Cobblestone Vineyard - Martinborough, took
home the coveted Bragato
Trophy for Champion
Wine of Show, along with the Mike Wolter Memorial Trophy and Champion
Pinot Noir at last night’s Romeo Bragato Wine Awards. More.
 Romeo
Bragato Wine Awards announced
(27 Aug 10) A total of 458 medals have been awarded at this year’s Romeo
Bragato Wine Awards, including 56 gold medals, 153 silver medals and
249 bronze medals. More.
Target
the wealthy, Carter tells Winegrowers
(27 Aug 10) Exporters should be targeting markets such as aspiring middle classes
in China where people can afford to buy premium New Zealand produce such as wines,
says Agriculture Minister David
Carter. More.
2010
New Zealand Champion Brewery - DB
(27 Aug 10) DB Breweries is the New Zealand Champion
Brewery of the 2010
BrewNZ Beer Awards. More.
MORE NEWS: All
News this month :: Food
Industry :: Food Issues :: Food
Safety :: Nutrition :: Research & Education :: Foodies :: Food
Service :: Retail & Grocery :: Awards & Competitions :: Archived
News (12 months) |
 Supermarkets
are drug pushers, says lobbyist
(30 Aug 10) Supermarkets are drug "pushers" who are selling high quantities of
discounted wine and should be viewed the same as dealers dishing out Ecstasy
pills or morphine.
It may seem extreme but it's a view that Professor Doug Sellman,
director of the National Addiction Centre and spokesman for the Alcohol Action
Group, is taking quite seriously. Professor Sellman believes the Government should
remove alcohol from supermarket shelves and limit the amount of advertising operators
are allowed for liquor, among many changes he hopes might alter people's attitudes
to drinking. Think it's over the top? He will tell you that's because you have
been brainwashed into downplaying our excessive consumption of alcohol. In a
three-month study of advertising in the Herald, the Dominion
Post, the Press and the Otago Daily Times, Professor Sellman
said New World was the country's biggest "drug pusher" because it had the most
alcohol-related advertising. Some supermarkets
also sold alcohol below cost to lure customers in, which was contributing to
the problem. "Having the cheapest alcohol in town gets people into the supermarket
to then buy the other stuff ... It's basically maintaining the heavy-drinking
culture. "The sale of alcohol in supermarkets is very accessible and normalises
it as an ordinary grocery item so people are slowly brainwashed into thinking,
'This actually isn't a drug, this is like fruit and vege.'
More at NZ
Herald.
 Southern
brew goes from strength to strength
(9 Aug 10) Fifty years ago this month New Zealand Breweries launched its Lucky
beer nationwide and announced it would stop brewing local ales – including Speight's.
It seems inconceivable today, when Speight's is the biggest-selling beer in New
Zealand, that it was once taken off the market. Public outcry resulted in the
decision being reversed two months later. In the decades since, various rival
brews have tried to knock Speight's off but it has survived while beers like
Lucky have gone the way of the moa. Today demand for the southern ale means most
brewing and packaging has moved from Dunedin's Rattray St to other centres. But
the distinctive central-city building still makes about 15 per cent of the wellspring
Gold Medal Ale. "I think it's really important for locals to realise it is still
a working brewery," Speight's
marketing manager Sean
O'Donnell said. "We still brew beer there Monday to Friday and we see
that as a really important part of the brand. Speight's Brewery in Dunedin is
where it all began and we
are looking to grow the brewery." While Speight's survived the 1960 "assassination
attempt", it took at least another 20 years before the beer and its Rattray St
home base were secured. Brewery tours were introduced in 1983, and in 1997 the
Speight's Heritage Centre was opened, and redeveloped two years later to include
the first of what is now a chain of Speight's Ale Houses. But perhaps the most
important development of all was a 1987 advertising campaign
which cemented the "Good on ya, mate" line into the public consciousness. More
at Businessday.
 Ice
Cream Awards recognise excellence and innovation
(28 Jun 10) The 2010 annual NZICMA New Zealand Ice Cream Awards were
presented at a special Awards dinner at the annual NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers'
Association Conference held
in
Tauranga
last month.
For the first time in it’s 14 year history, the Supreme winner was a low fat
product (97% fat free). Tip Top Creamy Yoghurt Ice Cream Strawberry,
made by Fonterra Brands (Tip Top) Ltd, was described by the judges as very smooth
and creamy in texture with a natural strawberry flavour. The year's Awards received
228 entries, from large manufacturers to small ice cream parlours. Chief
Judge Kay McMath and her team of five judges, using international
judging criteria, took two full days to judge the large number of entries split
over 11 categories. 21 Gold medals were awarded, and 75 silvers. As well as winning
the Supreme Award,
Fonterra
Brands
(Tip
Top)
Ltd
also
won
the Best
in Category for Standard Ice Cream with Inclusions, with their Tip
Top Boysenberry Ripple Ice Cream, and the Kids Choice Category with Tip
Top Goody Goody Gum Drops. Best in Category, Premium Ice Cream was
awarded
to Mint Choc Magic made by Wendy’s Supa Sundaes. New Zealand Natural
(Emerald Foods) won Best in Category, Premium Vanilla,
with New
Zealand
Natural Gold Pure
Vanilla, and Emerald Foods also took out Best in Category, Export
Ice Cream,
with their Killinchy Gold Lychee and Passionfruit. Jamie Mew of Auckland's
Valentino's Gelato took
out
the Best
in
Category, Open Creative, with his Yoghurt and Lemon Curd gelato. Best
in Category, New Packaging was awarded to Kiwi Ice Cream Company Ltd
for their ice cream birthday cakes with Barbie decorations for girls and Pirates
for boys.
See
photos
from
the Awards
dinner and presentations, here at www.nzicecream.org.nz/awardsgallery10.htm. |
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