Kapiti and Palmerston North

Kept it local for the October issue of Kia Ora Magazine, the Air NZ inflight magazine, with a story on my new hood, the Kapiti Coast (click here to read) and one on the best places to eat and drink in Palmy (click here to read).

Now have to write the story

Back from a few days down south in New Zealand's second largest city for a magazine story which, as luck would have it, involved gratuitous amounts of food and beverages.

Here's some visuals from my fleeting visit.

Being a chef in Vietnam

Almost every aspect of Vietnamese life revolves around food. That's why cooking classes are so  popular there. I scoffed my way through one and wrote about it in Stuff (click here to read).

Seoul Food

The October issue of Taste Magazine runs my foodie travel piece on Seoul, including the incredibly odd and not terribly pleasant sensation of tasting raw, still-alive and still very much wriggling amputated baby octopus. Even putting aside my objection on the grounds of animal cruelty, it's a practice I shall NEVER be repeating (click here to read).