It came, and it went, although not nearly as fast as my saying that might imply. The finals for the Great Waikato Food Challenge were held today at the Food Wine and Jazz Festival at the Hamilton Gardens. The weather was very kind, almost overly benevolent in the abundance of sun that made its way [...]

It’s been underway for the last two weeks but I figured I should finally post up what we are doing for the event. The boss wasn’t 100% happy with the duck dish we had on the menu as of the end of last year so the decision to use the duck was fairly logical especially [...]

I’ve uploaded all my pics to a flickr gallery which you can see here. Some great stuff on show and very interesting techniques being displayed.

Cuisine Magazine have announced their Restaurant of the Year for 2009. Again the capital takes the cake the overall winner is Logan Brown, having been open for the last 13 years most people outside of Wellington would probably know of the Restaurateurs rather than the Restaurant its self with their series "Hunger for the Wild" [...]

Every year Bakels (the wholesale baking supplier) runs a competition to judge the best pies from all the land, the results were announced this past Tuesday see here. While talking to some of the other students at school we decided that to fully master our Pastry module we better hot foot it over to Tauranga [...]

The July issue of Cuisine contains the list of this years finalists for their annual restaurant of the year awards and have now been made available online. The list looks much like last years did with only two Hamilton establishments making the cut, Palate and The Woodbox. With the winners to be announced in the [...]

Some more pictures from the Culinary Fare

Over the last two days Wintec has been playing host to this years Waikato Culinary Fare, the event has seen competitors from secondary and culinary schools around the region and beyond, the Navy, the Army, and of course the host school its self. I didn’t enter any competitions but did stop buy to take a [...]

In anticipation of the Waikato Culinary Fare which Wintec hosts annually a few duo’s got together to cook a two course meal from a set list of ingredients. There were four teams that were interested so it became more of a “have a cook session” than a formal tryout. The time limit was 3 hours [...]