21 August 2010

OLIVE OIL...

One of the things that's very notable about The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook is the thoroughly modern recipes we cook, using delicious locally grown olive oils.

We've always been fans of Village Press as the hard working team of Maureen and Wayne Startup have taken their olive oil to the world and really shown everyone just how good NZ olive oil can be. They're now big producers, but their olive oil still retains the boutique properties, and is always on our shelves.

While in the Wairarapa we were given some magnificent golden green Saundridge olive oil recently pressed and bottles by Jan and John Thompson. If you're down that way make sure you get hold of their lovely oil too.