Suddenly it feels like it's a whole lot easier to eat green
Chere & Chesney Owners of Wild Pear Kitchen
Jim Tucker is a journalist, writer and columnist based in New Plymouth.
OPINION: We need to get out more, because I’ve only just noticed a social trend that may prove a lot more important than tattoos, mullets and giant playgrounds.
The way we eat may be undergoing fundamental change.
When Lin and I recently went looking for “new” places to get lunch we stumbled on a phenomenon that seems to be accelerating at great pace - plant-based cooking.
In one instance, we found a row of eating houses in town that were either empty or sparsely populated - except one, which had a queue out the door.
It’s an award-winning café run by Chere Bailey called Wild Pear Kitchen, which served us as delicious a lunch as we’d found in years.
Lin tried a bun decked with halloumi, avocado, aioli, lettuce and tomato, and I had kumara chips and a hempseed burger. read more…
Written by Jim Tucker
Article source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/opinion/300723218/suddenly-it-feels-like-its-a-whole-lot-easier-to-eat-green