Pukeko’s Egg

Being a good cook is about understanding history and the culture of cuisines other than your own. Because of increased travel and globalisation we all borrow little snippets of information from different parts of the world — subconsciously or otherwise — to build our dishes, a little like the way a bird builds its nest. If you just take the ‘new’ without considering that the idea or technique is maybe thousands of years old, then you build a cuisine that is hollow, confused and without emot