Virgil Evetts With the season now lurching towards summer, it’s time to give some thought to the annual backyard tomato crop. Tomatoes are hands-down the number one summer food crop in New Zealand gardens. They are grown not just for … Read more
Virgil Evetts I’ve never been able to make my mind up about pomegranates. They’re a fruit I feel I really ought to like, with their good looks and ancient pedigree, but, I’ve always been somewhat underwhelmed. While visually arresting to … Read more
Virgil Evetts Why did it take me so long to discover broad beans? I’ve spent most of my life with a head full of funny notions about them being horrid, farty things favoured mostly by the old and enfeebled. If … Read more
Virgil Evetts My best beloved has spent a lot of time scolding me in recent days for my apparently shoddy daytime eating habits. Of particular concern is my wanton disregard for breakfast, by far her favourite meal of the day, and yes, … Read more
Virgil Evetts After a ‘good’ month of beating around the bush, Spring is definitely upon us up here in Auckland, with blossoms a-plenty, birds singing saucily and bees buzzing about the place in that knowing way. Oh, and it’s raining. … Read more
Summerfields It is not every day that you find yourself huddling under a door frame at 4.30 in the morning while the house shakes violently around you in a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. After the shaking had stopped, we found we … Read more
Virgil Evetts Cane sugar is one of the most widely used ingredients in our pantries today. Its popularity and use is pan-cultural and it ranks as one of the most important tradable commodities on the planet. We stir it into … Read more
Virgil Evetts In the make- believe world of food media all foodstuffs are made from scratch. Nothing shop bought can ever be as good as homemade. Surely??? Meanwhile in the parallel universe of bombastic supermarket sales strategies, the very opposite … Read more
Virgil Evetts Over the weekend, for reasons mostly unknown (but at least partly because of Wendyl Nissen), I broke a 20-year habit of shunning uber-fake snack foods of the Twisties, Rashuns and Cheezles kind. To explain what, at a glance, … Read more
