On the heels of a hot sporting date on a Wellington tennis court, Kiwi comics Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, of Flight of the Conchords fame, are now limbering up for a trip down memory lane.
Good food and wine are the stars of New Zealand’s latest winter fest ‘Wellington on a Plate’ – a celebration of the capital city’s lively culinary scene.
First there were celebrity dolphins and an accident-prone kiwi. Next a cave-dweller hermit sheep, a rather forward flightless parrot and a sand-eating penguin – and now New Zealand has another animal celebrity.
Take a dozen of the world’s top chefs, whisk them off to an exotic location, cook up a cracking dinner for a Kiwi charity and you’ve got a winning recipe.
Kiwi golfers missed out on top placings in the Michael Hill New Zealand Open yesterday (15.03.09), but the dramatic local scenery of mountains, lake and tussock hills provided a breath-taking backdrop to the final rounds.
An iconic New Zealand landscape and a picturesque vineyard provide a dramatic setting for an outdoor sculpture exhibition that showcases top Kiwi artists.
A Christchurch chef has got cracking for his favourite charity by creating what’s thought to be the world’s largest pavlova – a 50 square metre expanse of meringue capable of feeding 10,000 people.