by Penny Cusack | Sep 27, 2025 | AUT University, Blog, Events, Featured Events, Slow Food Auckland
Put October 7th in your diary. Shop at the Slow Food Marketplace at AUT. Support our local artisans and food producers including A Lady Butcher, Earthbound Honey Ltd. Sustainable Artisan Beekeepers, Kings Eat Organics, Te Atatu Toasted, Koko Beans, WholoFoods,...
by Penny Cusack | Jul 22, 2024 | Blog, Events, Slow Food Auckland
What a fun evening! Our ancestral dinner turned into an around-the-world buffet, with tasty childhood dishes from right here in NZ and Australia to European delicacies and American comfort food. Perhaps best of all however was sharing our stories and the memories that...
by Penny Cusack | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog, Events
Last weekend, Slow Food Auckland gathered to ascend Maungawhau / Mount Eden. Dane Tumahai (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) shared creation stories, talked to the significance of the Matariki stars, and identified native plants and their uses. The mountain was once a significant...
by Penny Cusack | Sep 4, 2022 | Blog, Events, Slow Food Auckland, Snail of Approval
Most of us know there are rules to be followed if we want to make beautiful pasta. For the collaboration between Pasta e Cuore, Kelmarna Gardens and Slow Food Auckland we got to learn some of them from the amazing chef Stefania Ugolini of Pasta e Cuore. Stefania...
by Penny Cusack | May 15, 2022 | Blog, Events
It is great to back in the real world and celebrating good, clean, fair food for all. Our winter programme includes a workshop collaboration series with Kelmarna Gardens, a 2021 Slow Food Auckland Snail of Approval recipient. The workshops feature Hannah, The Lady...
by Penny Cusack | May 12, 2021 | Blog, Events, Slow Food Auckland
Our Polish Pierogi workshop was so much more than a cooking class. It reminded us that food is love and food is memory – a way to connect to our heritage and to our own cultural identity. There was no doubt it is all about family – our teacher Angelina,...
