New Zealand Cuisine

The roots of New Zealand traditional food are in the Maori and European cultures. The Kiwi food is based on such products as lamb, lobster, fresh fish and shellfish. If we have to describe the cuisine of New Zealand using only one world it would be “fresh”, because the country has a good choice of fresh products, both from the land and the sea. The best examples of national dishes are Hangi (meat and vegetables, cooked in the earth-oven), Colonial Goose (lamb, stuffed with dried apricots, honey, chives, parsley, and onions).

There exists a wide spread notion that there are more sheep than people in New Zealand, which means that lamb is the most favorite dish of the locals. The country is also famous for food and wine festivals. The most popular of them are annually held in Auckland, Canterbury, Queenstown, and other big cities. So, visiting New Zealand, you should for sure try some local wines. The high quality red wines are produced in the Auckland region.