Author. Stone Soup — 02/ 08/ 2022
By Sarah Hopkinson
Imagine thriving food production systems within Aotearoa that are not only environmentally just, but socially equitable too.
Author. Kate Richards — 14/ 02/ 2017
If I’m honest with myself, I knew it’d never work out. My willpower levels are low, and frankly, I don’t have a strong enough moral compass to fully commit to vegetarianism. I’m a shit human, so sue me.
Author. Aaron McLean — 13/ 02/ 2017
As humans we seek sensual stimulation and experience, the new is a delight to unfold, especially when it celebrates and respects the fragile landscape in which we live. – Lance Redgwell
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 02/ 2017
I’ve heard them called ‘pirate winemakers,’ by a vineyard worker from the Loire. These are people that care more about authenticity and expression of place then following the strict bureaucratic regulations of the European appellation system.
Author. Aaron McLean — 08/ 02/ 2017
“The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common,
But lets the greater felon loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.”
— anonymous protest poem from the 17th century.
Author. Stone Soup — 12/ 01/ 2017
Praise Ra, it’s summer. As Roy Ayers exuberantly professes in his good times track – ‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine’, except for the gamer in my basement, but that’s another longer story.
Author. Mika Reilly — 12/ 01/ 2017
PART ONE
I. Under the tracks
My first encounter with a yokocho was long before I moved here, back when Tokyo was still an unfamiliar gleaming enchanting mess of lights, a tangle of train lines and zebra crossings packed with an implausible number of people.
Author. Aaron McLean — 15/ 12/ 2016
Daniel Kamp makes beautifully designed everyday objects, designed with the explicit intent that they will last and be so beautiful that you’ll never want to let them go.
Author. Leisha Jones — 14/ 09/ 2016
Whether it’s the pillowy bread, the perfect execution of that egg, or the sunny disposition of the friendly faces that run the place…There’s something about Ceremony that just makes you feel good.
Author. Aaron McLean — 22/ 08/ 2016
Viv from Breakbread recently put a call out on social media for volunteers to help Julie Heffernan break ground on an inspiring new organic garden in West Auckland. With a gift of land she is able to continue the work she did with and for women at Kelmarna Gardens. She explains in her own words below.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
We’re back and we’ve grown. Some fantastic new contributors took up our call to arms and have dropped in to add their morsels and more variety to our now bountiful broth.
Author. Leisha Jones — 10/ 06/ 2016
My first taste of kina was as a doe-eyed Daddy’s girl, fishing off the rocks with my father. I looked up at him as if he were Jacques Cousteau, as he pulled his diving knife out of its holster and picked up a kina off the rocks. He crudely ripped the top off, gave it a quick dunk in the ocean and urged my sister and I to try it. It was too much for my little body to handle, and what resulted was a symphony of tears, retching and wailing as I clawed at my tongue and tried to rinse the sour taste out of my mouth with seawater. Cheers, Dad…
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
“I grow delicious fruit and then I try to preserve it as simply as possible with fermentation – it’s an age-old ritual.”
Author. Lynn Jenner — 10/ 06/ 2016
In the last few years I’ve given up buying apples from the supermarket because I’ve finally realised they are zombie apples. It’s fairly easy to tell if you have bought a zombie apple.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
“What is food for thought? Why does food for thought make you hungry? And hungrier, the more you eat? How is an idea translated into food? Are ideas something you can taste? I had endless questions about food, about cooking, about the science of cooking, about restaurants, about chefs. I had time to go in search of the answers. That’s where I’ve been. Here’s what I brought back from my journey…”
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
With his debut album Trotro, Ghanian producer DJ Katapila (government name: Ishmael Abbey) re-imagined the rhythms of the traditional Ga music of his homeland through a lens coloured by 90s Detroit techno, Chicago acid house and the club music styles of the Ivory Coast and Togo. In the process, he codified twenty years of working experience as a mobile DJ into a singular sound. While after its release in 2009, Trotro garnered Ishmael a degree of recognition around West Africa, its recent international re-release through Awesome Tapes From Africa looks set to take him around the world.
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
Public Share is a collective of six New Zealand artists working together to engage in ideas of production, sharing and exchange. Public Share make objects with site specific clay which they then share in events designed to punctuate the day with pause, reflection and conversation.
Author. Leisha Jones — 10/ 06/ 2016
Maryam Omar and her sister Dalal Omar take great pride in showing off the flavours of Jordan to Kingsland locals. At the family-run Petra Shawarma, questions about the menu are answered in great detail – how the dish would be eaten back home, how it has been slightly altered to meet our needs, how it should be eaten, and what it should be eaten with.
Author. Ginny Grant — 10/ 06/ 2016
“The poorer a place is the greater call there seems for oysters. Look here, Sir, here’s a oyster stall to every half dozen houses — the street’s lined with ’em. Blessed if I don’t think that when a man’s very poor, he rushes out of his lodgings and eats oysters in regular desperation.”
Charles Dickens, ‘The Pickwick Papers’ (1836)
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
We asked our previous hospitality profile subject @Honebegood to nominate our next subject, and he sent us to theologian-turned-coffee-guru Lee Woo Hyung of @camper_coffee. Johnny suggested Lee “simply because I really like what he’s done with the place and he seems like a really nice guy. He’s a stylish dude who is quite obviously extremely passionate about the coffee!” Lee was the winner of this year’s New Zealand AeroPress awards and will rep us in Dublin this June. Go check out his Newmarket hole in the wall.
Author. Fiona Smith — 10/ 06/ 2016
For a young New Zealand girl, growing up on a quarter-acre section in central Auckland, growing and pressing your own olive oil seemed the reserve of the elite, with acres of rolling hills in the country. My Italian neighbours would tell of their yearly olive harvest and I imagined their estate in southern Italy, complete with majestic villa and the aforementioned hills. Many years later, while backpacking through Europe, I visited my old neighbours in their small seaside village of Scauri. No majestic villa. No rolling hills. Big disappointment.
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
Lottie showed up on my radar before I realised she was a New Zealander. I had bookmarked a story on one of my favourite blogs, Roads and Kingdoms, about a photographer documenting the Amish and their farming traditions – that’s the sort of story I’d like to shoot and love to read.
Author. Mika Reilly — 10/ 06/ 2016
Verb, honorific. “I humbly receive.”
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
Fraser Chatham grew up in a small Coromandel town by the beach.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
Our wine is the way it is as a result of our environment and the human hands that have taken it from the vineyard to the bottle.
Author. Ginny Grant — 10/ 06/ 2016
I’m almost loath to talk about Eden Noodles. It’s truly one of the finest producers of Sichuan food in this city. It’s small, it’s handily located at the top end of Dominion Road and it always has queues forming outside at peak times. If you can’t handle chilli or heat to your food, this is not the place to come.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
Many useful and nutritious plants growing around us are treated as botanical outcasts. Weeds are characteristically fast-growing, and usually in areas people don’t want them. But their abundance and resilience means we are growing free food without even trying. Thinking of weeds differently opens up a new world of plants that are edible and/or medicinal.
Author. Fiona Smith — 10/ 06/ 2016
We keep being told there is a lot of food wastage in the Western world. I don’t know about you, but I am guilty as charged. I have too many veges that don’t get eaten and I tip half-eaten tins/jars of things that have spent too long in the fridge down the sink. On the bright side, I basically ignore best before dates, relying instead on my own sense of smell, taste and good sense. Here are a few other things you can do at home to reduce food waste.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
Hunger Games: 1 in 4 (2015)
Painting based on the statistic that 1 in 4 Kiwi kids live under the poverty line.
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
Peculiarly, food courts, in their many shades and shapes, have been the location for much of the very best and worst of the substantial amount of eating I have done in my life.
Author. Aaron McLean — 10/ 06/ 2016
“Shouldn’t every community be fed as much as possible, locally, by the people that live in that community?”
Author. Stone Soup — 10/ 06/ 2016
What the city’s ex-refugees can teach us about the current migrant crisis
