Chicken kichardi, hot sour salmon and strawberry and orange salad. Photos / Bite magazine
Chicken kichardi, hot sour salmon and strawberry and orange salad. Photos / Bite magazine
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At my temporary home in Hawke's Bay (where the team have been participating in FAWC - the Food and Wine Classic) things are very much in party mode and this incredibly hospitable community have excelled. Drinks staged in the Black Barn Market Round, a four-course meal ina pop-up dining room at the Blue Moon Collection store, a boot-scootin' hoedown around an over-sized bonfire at Trinity Hills winery, a long lunch at the Hawke's Bay Farmer's Market, early evening vino from Italy's Northwest at Monica Loves - The Bay's swanky new bar; catching up with old friends in their back yard in Havelock North.
Each event quite different but similar in that they featured great food, wine and company - and that's the holy trinity of entertaining, which is top of mind for most of us now (it is mid-November and party season).
To help make a decision on which flag we prefer, the Bite team have taken a foodie look at each of the five designs. We figure a new New Zealand flag requires a meal that reflects all that it represents so Warren Elwin has matched each flag to what might be set to become our new national dish:
