The beef and lamb maidens have been joined by another girl. Over the last four years the Beef and Lamb board had an advertising campaign utilising the gold medal winning Evers-Swindel twins and Sarah Ulmer. Apparently their gratuitous meat consumption helped them to win Olympic gold medals. It was a simple premise but as the advertising campaign was getting stale they obviously wanted a new face. For this they required another young and female Olympic gold medallist.

    Anna and I have noticed that awareness of Fair Trade is low in NZ compared to the UK when we were there a couple of years back.

OK, so another post about food from me...but this time at least I'm not just thinking about my own belly. You've probably heard / read about the increases in the price of rice - just this weekend there was a story about the shortages in Australia (as a result of years of drought) that is likely to affect New Zealand rice prices.

Finally the blog is back in action and ... no new posts for the first couple of weeks. Not the best of starts. However, tonight, things change. I have had heaps of things I have wanted to blog about - what to begin with?!- but will start with tonight's dinner: chicken quesadillas, I have become addicted (via Google Reader subscriptions) to a variety of food blogs. Tonight's quesadillas were inspired by a recent Cook Sister! post (cheesy vegetable quesadillas).