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Gathering for our last meal together in the whare kai, nothing managed to savage my tastebuds more than the errant tendrils of the cooked hangi smells now wafting from the kitchen into the small dining room. It had been 17 years since I last ate hangi on home soil and now
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Hawkes Bay where I now live is such a great place that it’s hard to believe that firstly other people don’t know that and secondly that people who live here appear diffident in their belief of that truth too! Take it from me, it IS! It’s a stunning region.
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From time to time I wonder if I met an everyday hero in the street whether I’d recognise them without their full kit on. Well, would you? Then I realise, I probably wouldn’t. Why? Because I have this caricature image in my mind of a comic book ‘super hero’ whose larger than life and able […]
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