Enjoy a delicious winter warmer – with Domino’s new Chef’s Best™ Chicken & Camembert Pizza!
Date: 20 Jun 2013There’s not much we love about the rainy season, right? Wrong! Put some cheer in the chilly season and enjoy the delicious winter pick me up you deserve, with Domino’s new Chef’s Best™ Chicken & Camembert pizza. A tasty new offering from Domino’s Chef’s Best™ Range, Domino’s Chef’s Best™ Chicken & Camembert pizza gives you more of what you want, for less! With seasoned chicken, sliced camembert, rasher bacon, cherry ... more
Zespri Gold3 licence allocation significantly oversubscribed
Date: 19 Jun 2013The Zespri Board has announced that 1,130 hectares of licences for the more Psa-tolerant gold kiwifruit cultivar Gold3 will be allocated to Zespri growers in 2013, as the next step in the Psa recovery pathway - 288 hectares more than was originally intended for allocation. This includes 688 hectares of new gold licences for Green growers and new developments, as well as 442 hectares of Gold One-for-One licences, where Hort16A growers can transfer to Gold3. Zespri Chairman Peter ... more
Farro Fresh teams up with Green Meadows Beef
Date: 19 Jun 2013Gourmet food store, Farro Fresh, has joined forces with Green Meadows Beef, to bring 100% grass-fed, Angus beef direct from the Carey family’s South Taranaki farm to Auckland food lovers. Green Meadows Beef will be launched at an in-store tasting event at the Grey Lynn Farro Fresh store on Friday, 21 June from 11am to 3pm, with a second in-store tasting event scheduled for Saturday, 13 July. Green Meadows Beef scotch fillet and premium Angus mince will initially only be available ... more
Dairy price slide halted - up 1.1 percent
Date: 19 Jun 2013Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, snapping three straight declines as prices rose for skim and whole milk powder. The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.1 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks ago. The average winning price rose to US$4,598 a tonne from US$4,443 a tonne. Whole milk powder, the biggest product by volume, gained 2.2 per cent to US$4,668 a tonne and skim milk powder rose 3.2 per cent to $4,284 a tonne. The price of anhydrous milk ... more
Cuisine crowns NZ’s best restaurants
Date: 19 Jun 2013Diners in New Zealand are being treated to the finest food they have ever had, according to Kerry Tyack, head judge of this year’s Cuisine NZ Good Food Awards. The French Café in Auckland is the 2013 Cuisine Restaurant of the Year (as well as the SanPellegrino Best Metropolitan Restaurant). It’s also one of only two restaurants to receive the maximum of three chef’s hats under the new rating system, which adopts the hats and scores out of 20, as used by the ... more
Taste Farmers’ Market of the Year 2013 Awards open for voting
Date: 18 Jun 2013Voting has opened for the 2013 Taste Farmers' Market of the Year Awards. Our Judges are ready, Chef Jonny Schwass returns and is looking for the very best of the best, new judges Chef Sam Marchant and Chef Jamie Bennett are joining a army of helpers and will be tasting what producers have to offer at the 2013 Taste Farmers Markets Awards in Christchurch. We are looking for the tastiest of the tastiest, the freshest of the freshest ... does this sound like your product ? ... more
Second Blunderbuss opens - pizza and vino on the menu in Takapuna
Date: 18 Jun 2013A new Takapuna eatery is serving up a little slice of Italy. Called Blunderbuss, the newly opened pizza joint and bar is part of retail and hospitality precinct McKenzies. Fronting Hurstmere Rd, it takes over the spaces previously occupied by bakery and patisserie Elske and Little Empire bar. This is Auckland’s second Blunderbuss with a Kingsland eatery opening in early May. Dining at Blunderbuss is a shared experience with larger tables that work for groups and ... more
Have some fruity fun - with new SpongeBob Fruit Drinks!
Date: 17 Jun 2013Going troppo in the search for a drink the kids will love and you feel happy with? Farewell the fruitless search because fruity just got fun, thanks to new SpongeBob fruit drinks - the drink that makes it hip to be square! Based on the colourful character kids know and love, SpongeBob fruit drinks have no added sugar and contain 50% juice. With three fabulously fruity flavours to choose from - Tropical, Blackcurrant and Raspberry, kids are spoilt for choice when it comes to their drinks ... more
NZ has potential to become a fruit bowl for Asia
Date: 17 Jun 2013Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce today released a new report showing opportunities for further growth in the New Zealand fresh fruit sector, including into Asia. The Coriolis Research report, Driving Growth in the Fresh Fruit Sector, says that New Zealand’s fruit exports are shifting towards Asia and away from traditional markets like Europe and North America. “The report highlights that we can become a fruit bowl for Asia. Asian consumers prefer the sweetness ... more
Fonterra invests a further $30m into Whareroa site
Date: 17 Jun 2013Fonterra has announced a further $30 million investment to expand its Dry Distribution Centre at its Whareroa site in Taranaki. This follows a $23 million upgrade of the Whareroa coolstores last year, bringing the total capital investment in the logistics infrastructure on site to more than $50 million since 2011. Fonterra Director of Logistics, Mark Leslie, says the project is part of Fonterra’s overall drive to simplify their supply chain and reduce the associated costs. ... more
