Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory.

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In part two of Dietary Requirements’ live special recorded at Parrotdog brewery as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Simon Day and Sophie Gilmour are joined by Kelda Hains (Rita) and Dominique McMillan (Floriditas) for a discussion about the future of restaurants and the hospitality industry.

Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021.

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Recorded live at Parrotdog in Lyall Bay as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Dietary Requirements meets the brewery’s three founding Matts (Kristofski, Warner and Stevens) for a chat about their decade-long journey in the craft beer business.

Read more: Alice Neville charts the journey of Parrotdog.

Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021.

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The pod breaks out of the studio for a field trip to Kingi at Auckland’s Hotel Britomart, and a very special cooking lesson from chef Tom Hishon. He gives us a behind-the-scenes tour of the seafood-focused restaurant and teaches us how to cook the delicious flounder of our dreams.

Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.

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Carlo Buenaventura is an evergreen Auckland hospitality personality who’s worked both in kitchens and front of house at a range of fantastic spots since moving to New Zealand from the Philippines in 2010. His latest venture is Bar Magda on Cross Street in the central city, where he’s back on the tools in the kitchen. He joined Dietary Requirements to talk about why it’s so important to work on both sides of a restaurant, Bar Magda’s Filipino flavours and what he’s getting up to with Cinderella at this year’s Visa Wellington on a Plate.

Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021, on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.

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In this episode we're talking about food cities – what makes a great food city, and what are some of our personal favourites around the world? Is Simon right to put Wellington up there among the best international food cities, and how does Auckland rank?

Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at Wellington On a Plate 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com

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Next month, Visa Wellington On a Plate is taking over the capital's hospitality industry with a vast menu of events, burgers and cocktails. In this episode, WOAP programme director Beth Brash joins the Dietary Requirements team to talk about how the festival adapted to Covid-19, the amazing events on this year's programme, and her new life trapped in Tasmania. Dietary Requirements will also be making an official appearance at WOAP 2021 on August 15 at the Parrotdog brewery in Lyall Bay. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com.

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Last week the Restaurant Association launched a campaign to draw attention to the major skills and labour shortage the hospitality sector is experiencing as a result of Covid-19 and the subsequent border closure. This episode’s guest Chand Sahrawat runs three of Auckland’s most highly-rated restaurants – Sidart, Cassia and The French Cafe by Sid – and has first-hand experience of the kind of pressures hospitality owners and their staff are under. 

This episode of Dietary Requirements is brought to you by Visa Wellington on a Plate. Plan your 2021 experience at visawoap.com

Read Chand’s open letter to Jacinda Ardern here:

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In this episode, as they thank Freedom Farms for three years of support, Simon, Alice and Sophie return to the very essence of Dietary Requirements – yarning about yum as food. From sausage rolls to seaweed noodles, orange chocolate chip ice cream to pickle chips, it’s a quick-fire round-up of our top kai memories from the past few months.

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Polly Markus started posting her home cooking adventures on the Instagram account @miss_pollys_kitchen during lockdown last year, and has now amassed over 18,000 hungry followers. She joins Simon and Alice in the studio (and Sophie on the phone on her way back from the Foodstuffs Expo in Hamilton) to talk about the joys of home cooking, kitchen disasters and whether or not she’s ever had gout.

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