Kai - Kai

From Chef Luke Adams, recipes for fry bread, creamed paua and boil-up:

Tino reka! Fry bread, creamed pāua and boil-up

Celebrity chefs Karena and Kasey Bird (Te Arawa) from the Bay of Plenty are masterminds at creating Matariki recipes whānau can make from the comfort of their own homes.

Te Ao Māori News — Mānawatia a Matariki! Karena and Kasey Bird create recipes for today

The recipes include:

• Beef eye fillet with crayfish gratin, kūmara and pūhā
• Mānua marinated lambm rumps with Kahawai potato puree
• Venison medallions and watercress salad with Rēwena croutons and Kawakawa dressing

And here's more from Karena and Kasey:

• Tohutao: Ngā momo reka o te hāmana huamata
  More of their recipes from The Spinoff, translated into te reo Māori for te wiki o te reo Māori
• Watch their episode of Fresh TV (Season 6, Episode 34)

Have a watch of Anne Thorp's Kai Ora series! The first video is below, and you can find the whole Kai Ora series here.

• Kai Māori cuisine: More than hāngī | Stuff.co.nz
  "The traditional hāngī has long been seen as the mainstay of kai Māori. Monique Fiso, owner of Wellington's Hiakai, is challenging this by bringing native ingredients back on the menu, and helping to shape and define Māori cuisine"
• Chef Monique Fiso of Hiakai on the art of food, Gordon Ramsay and not being afraid to fail | thedenizen.co.nz
  "After returning to our shores and organising a series of sell-out pop-ups in 2015, Fiso opened her acclaimed Wellington restaurant Hiakai in 2018, specialising in Māori fine-dining cuisine. Fiso, who is of Māori and Samoan descent, is now considered one of the country’s most important chefs, bringing a new genre of cuisine to the fore that both honours and expands on Aotearoa’s food story."

From Māori Television, watch episodes of Life of Kai, with Joe McLeod:

"Joe McLeod is on a mission to revive traditional Māori food practices. He shares with us a culinary world & knowledge that many people thought..."

Life of Kai — Māori Television

And see also Jacqui Gibson's article for Wilderness magazine:

Food talk & foraging with chef Joe McLeod

Watch Rewi Spraggon's episode on Life of Kai:

"Rewi Spraggon is a man of many talents – a chef, a carver, musician and artist – but a hāngi master at his core...."

Life of Kai — Rewi Spraggon's episode on Māori Television

Peter Gordon (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu) is a pioneer of fusion food:

• Legendary Chef Peter Gordon Returns To New Zealand Amid Changing Times | VIVA
• Peter Gordon | recipes.co.nz (check out the baked meatballs with twice-cooked kawakawa kumara and peas!)
  "In 2020, Peter relocated from London to Auckland to establish Homeland, a restaurant and food embassy to support New Zealand producers, teach people to cook, buy local, and share recipes from their homelands – and tell trade stories to the world."
• Manaakitanga at the marina: Peter Gordon's new 'food embassy' | The Spinoff