{"id":4433,"date":"2012-02-04T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2020-05-20T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:04:56","slug":"new-zealand-foodies-go-wild-for-food-festival-4433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/new-zealand-foodies-go-wild-for-food-festival-4433\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand foodies go wild for food festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4434\" title=\"Newzealand Food Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/newzealand-food-festival-340x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/newzealand-food-festival-340x245.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/newzealand-food-festival.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Creative foodies with a taste for wild fare have put the small town of Hokitika &#8211; on New Zealand\u2019s South Island West Coast &#8211; on the international culinary map with an adventurous food festival that attracts thousands of intrepid gourmets.<\/h1>\n<p>From a grassroots local celebration, the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival has evolved over two decades into one of the world\u2019s quirkiest food events &#8211; a gastronomic celebration of the weird but tasty wild foods harvested from the Coast\u2019s bountiful forests, land, fresh waterways and ocean.<\/p>\n<p>When the 23rd edition of the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival takes place on Saturday 10 March 2012, the little seaside town will welcome the biggest crowd of the year &#8211; up to 15,000 eager stomachs to satisfy with a bewildering spread of food stalls purveying delicacies destined to exercise the tastebuds of both the discerning and daring.<\/p>\n<p>Event manager Mike Keenan says the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival is a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list event&#8221;.&#8221;The Wildfoods Festival is unique and completely different to any other festival in the country. For many people, it is the opportunity to savour a rare delicacy, such as smoked garlic seared whitebait, or to try something they maybe wouldn\u2019t have even considered eating before, like huhu grubs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we also have stalls with good old-fashioned Coast food, like spit roast venison and sweets, and wild pork that may not be as easy to get hold of &#8211; or as affordable &#8211; in other towns and cities. And it\u2019s all good for you &#8211; it\u2019s natural, lean cuisine, without the additives and processing of many foods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 festival programme will include a wedding, live entertainment, and cooking demonstrations by a well known Kiwi chef. There is a prize for best-dressed festival-goer, in keeping with the \u2018wild time\u2019 theme, and a photography competition.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic festival has become an integral part of the region\u2019s tourism strategy, according to Hokitika mayor Maureen Pugh. &#8220;The festival celebrates the best of Westland, showcasing the stunning natural scenery that the Coast, and New Zealand is known for &#8211; stunning panoramas of looming mountains and lush rainforests, rugged seascapes, and an abundance of native trees and wildlife.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative foodies with a taste for wild fare have put the small town of Hokitika &#8211; on New Zealand\u2019s South Island West Coast &#8211; on the international culinary map with an adventurous food festival that attracts thousands of intrepid gourmets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,128,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fashion","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7958,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions\/7958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}