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Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory.
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In part two of Dietary Requirements’ live special recorded at Parrotdog brewery as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Simon Day and Sophie Gilmour are joined by Kelda Hains (Rita) and Dominique McMillan (Floriditas) for a discussion about the future of restaurants and the hospitality industry.
Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021.
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Recorded live at Parrotdog in Lyall Bay as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Dietary Requirements meets the brewery’s three founding Matts (Kristofski, Warner and Stevens) for a chat about their decade-long journey in the craft beer business.
Read more: Alice Neville charts the journey of Parrotdog.
Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021.
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The pod breaks out of the studio for a field trip to Kingi at Auckland’s Hotel Britomart, and a very special cooking lesson from chef Tom Hishon. He gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the seafood-focused restaurant and teaches us how to cook the delicious flounder of our dreams.
Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.
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Carlo Buenaventura is an evergreen Auckland hospitality personality who’s worked both in kitchens and front of house at a range of fantastic spots since moving to New Zealand from the Philippines in 2010. His latest venture is Bar Magda on Cross Street in the central city, where he’s back on the tools in the kitchen. He joined Dietary Requirements to talk about why it’s so important to work on both sides of a restaurant, Bar Magda’s Filipino flavours and what he’s getting up to with Cinderella at this year’s Visa Wellington on a Plate.
Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.
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In this episode we're talking about food cities – what makes a great food city, and what are some of our personal favourites around the world? Is Simon right to put Wellington up there among the best international food cities, and how does Auckland rank?
Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at Wellington On a Plate 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com
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Next month, Visa Wellington On a Plate is taking over the capital's hospitality industry with a vast menu of events, burgers and cocktails. In this episode, WOAP programme director Beth Brash joins the Dietary Requirements team to talk about how the festival adapted to Covid-19, the amazing events on this year's programme, and her new life trapped in Tasmania. Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.
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Last week the Restaurant Association launched a campaign to draw attention to the major skills and labour shortage the hospitality sector is experiencing as a result of Covid-19 and the subsequent border closure. This episode’s guest Chand Sahrawat runs three of Auckland’s most highly-rated restaurants – Sidart, Cassia and The French Cafe by Sid – and has first-hand experience of the kind of pressures hospitality owners and their staff are under.
This episode of Dietary Requirements is brought to you by Visa Wellington on a Plate. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com
Read Chand’s open letter to Jacinda Ardern here:
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In this episode, as they thank Freedom Farms for three years of support, Simon, Alice and Sophie return to the very essence of Dietary Requirements – yarning about yum as food. From sausage rolls to seaweed noodles, orange chocolate chip ice cream to pickle chips, it’s a quick-fire round-up of our top kai memories from the past few months.
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Polly Markus started posting her home cooking adventures on the Instagram account @miss_pollys_kitchen during lockdown last year, and has now amassed over 18,000 hungry followers. She joins Simon and Alice in the studio (and Sophie on the phone on her way back from the Foodstuffs Expo in Hamilton) to talk about the joys of home cooking, kitchen disasters and whether or not she’s ever had gout.
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Angus Brown is the founder of Ārepa, and in this episode he joins us to explain what nootropics are and how his company uses them to make a drink that’s good for your brain. Alice and Simon give it a try to see if it helps them remember stuff. Angus is also a member of Future Food Aotearoa, a 10-person collective of emerging food tech leaders (including Dietary Requirements’ own Sophie), and they talk about how they're joining forces to help New Zealand become the Silicon Valley of the food scene.
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Crack open a carton of Oak flavoured milk, rip into a pack of BBQ Shapes and join Simon, Alice and Sophie for a special Australia themed episode of Dietary Requirements. We’re talking classic Aussie dining experiences, perennially disputed Australian / New Zealand foods, raving about Adelaide as a food city, remembering the time Simon got fired from an Australian-themed restaurant in Copenhagen – and taste-testing some kangaroo meat seared on the office sandwich press.
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Special guest Leonie Hayden joins Sophie and Simon to debate whether or not hot cross buns are in fact bad, taste test some New Zealand-grown wasabi and discuss how hospitality will handle the rise in minimum wage.
Read the wasabi story here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/03-04-2021/meet-the-ex-cop-growing-wasabi-in-canterbury/
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Food writer Anna King Shahab joins Dietary Requirements to talk about Lazy Susan, the Facebook group she co-founded where Aucklanders are sharing all their best food recommendations, and Auckland Eats, a new book celebrating some of the people who make the city's food scene so special.
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The full food pod squad assembles to talk about fine dining, Valentine’s Day dining and summer dining, including the location of the alleged best fish and chip shop in Aotearoa.
Join Sophie, Simon and Alice as they reminisce about Antoine’s (02:00), the recently closed Auckland fine dining institution where only one of them ever actually ate. Seems like it would have been a good place to celebrate Valentine’s Day (09:55) – or is that day better spent hooning oysters with the gals? Simon reckons he’s found the best fish and chips in New Zealand (19:43), Sophie met a sourdough guy with the perfect sourdough guy name (32:14) and much more. Plus, find out how to get a free homemade mince and cheese pie from Simon.
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Sophie Gilmour and Simon Day are joined by special guest Hugo Baird, co-owner of Grey Lynn’s Honey Bones and Lilian, to talk about opening new pub Hotel Ponsonby.
Auckland is a city of many bars but few really good pubs – the kind of places you’d be just as comfortable going with your parents as you would with your mates, on a Saturday night or for a Sunday lunch. The kind of place you can call your local.
Hugo Baird set out to change that when he opened Hotel Ponsonby in the Ponsonby Post Office building late in 2020. The man behind some of Simon’s favourite spots, Hugo opened his first cafe Crumb when he was just 24, and now runs and owns Honey Bones cafe and neighbouring Lilian osteria and wine bar in Grey Lynn with his business partners Willy Gresson and chef Otis Gardner Schapiro.
He joined Sophie and Simon for the first Dietary Requirements of 2021 for a chat about what makes a good pub, opening one of his own, cursed hospo spots and the chaotic year that’s been.
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Dietary Requirement is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon, but until then we're republishing some of our favourite episodes of 2020. This week: Monique Fiso joins us to talk Kai Māori.
Calling Monique Fiso’s new book a cookbook doesn’t really do it justice – there's so much more to it, tracing her personal journey and charting the history of kai Māori as well as guiding readers on how to incorporate indigenous ingredients and techniques into their own cooking.
The book is titled Hiakai, also the name of Fiso’s Wellington restaurant which was last year included in a Time magazine list of The World’s 100 Greatest Places, among many other honours. Before opening Hiakai in 2018, she worked at some of New York’s best restaurants, and recently appeared on shows like Netflix’s The Final Table and National Geographic’s Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted.
Since opening Hiakai, Fiso has been at the forefront of the revitalisation and celebration of kai Māori, and writing and researching the book allowed her to delve further into the techniques and ingredients of our indigenous culture. She joined Simon Day, Alice Neville and Sophie Gilmour on this week’s Dietary Requirements for a chat about it.
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Dietary Requirement is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favourite interviews of 2020. This week: Henry Oliver joined us to talk the lockdown sourdough phenomenon.
What are we talking about when we talk about sourdough? It’s basically just flour and water, but it’s so much more than that. To help unpack the lockdown sourdough phenomenon, former (and future) Metro editor and friend of the pod Henry Oliver joined regular Dietary Requirements hosts Simon Day, Alice Neville and Sophie Gilmour for this month’s episode.
Henry got into making sourdough in a big way back in level four, and ended up publishing a whole book about it as part of Objectspace’s Ockham Lectures Pocket Edition series. Who better to taste-test Alice’s latest attempt, judge the quality of the crumb(?) and share tips on how to keep your starter alive and kicking? What qualities are we looking for in a good sourdough, and who sells the best loaf in New Zealand?
There’s also a bit of mag chat around the sudden end and recently-announced resurrection of Metro magazine, and some discussion around the huge impact Covid-19 is having on the hospitality industry, and what needs to be done to keep the country’s eateries and drinkeries afloat.
Find the Grizzly sourdough recipe Simon mentions here: A groundbreaking solution to the bread shortage: make your own!
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Dietary Requirements is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favourite episodes of 2020. This week: food writer Ginny Grant and a whole lot of babies joined the pod back in January. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The pod squad gathers for the last time to commiserate and celebrate the best food and drink of 2020.
In the final episode of the year Sophie, Alice and Simon share their culinary highlights and lowlights from a year that had nearly everything. It started with Simon and Sophie adding children to their lives – and a breast milk taste test – and it ended with the hospitality industry hanging by a thread. Through it all we saw exciting innovation from restaurants, cafes and bars, as they tried to stay afloat through Covid-19.
We desperately missed our cafe coffee and watched sourdough baking take off through lockdown. When we escaped from our homes we rediscovered our old favourites and new places around the country making delicious food. Finally, to end the year we have a book to give away: Beyond the Vines: The Changing Landscape of Wine in Aotearoa New Zealand by Jules van Costello. Beyond the Vines tells the stories of 65 of the country’s most exciting and innovative producers, and looks at the history and future of the wine regions as well as the 50+ grape varieties New Zealand grows.
Send us a photo of you having a glass of wine in the most summery spot possible and go into win one of two copies. Instagram: @dietaryrequirementspodcast
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