If you are organised you will have your Christmas shopping sorted (not me!) or at least you will have an idea about what you intend to buy for those special people in your life but if you are looking for…
Howard (Harry) Morris has been a fixture in the Nelson restaurant and food scene for a couple of decades, initially as the chef at The Cut restaurant that he owned with Rob Fanselow then the two of them opened Harry’s…
Any business owner will tell you that to succeed you need to keep moving your business forward; if you sell a service then you need to make sure you keep improving and delivering value for money, but if you make…
Spring has been around for a few weeks but Labour Weekend is the time food and beverage businesses shake off the effects of a sleepy winter, especially this year, and throw their doors open to the public for the upcoming…
At home we tend to eat a reasonable amount of vegetarian food, things like salads and risotto regularly appear on our dinner table but I am absolutely certain the one thing that will stop me ever becoming vegan is cheese.…
There are a huge range of eggs to choose from at the supermarkets, but in the Nelson Tasman region we are lucky to have a handful of outstanding free range egg producers whose operations are very small but the quality…
A dictionary definition of a butcher is a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop so how can a butcher produce vegetarian products? I asked Maria Rollin from The Vegetarian Butcher in Hardy St exactly…
One of the things I have been happiest to see back in full operation as the country moves out of enforced isolation is the Nelson Farmers Market that is held every Wednesday in Kirby Lane, Bridge St. During level 2…
Rustic Cuisine on Rutherford St is owned by my two favourite French people, Mylene and Greg Auphan who used to own La Gourmandise. Their latest venture is to develop a range of French style foods in jars ready for you…