The Hokitika wild Food Festival

The Hokitika Wild Food Festival

The Hokitika Wild Food Festival is an annual event held in March in New Zealand in the South Island town of Hokitika. The emphasis of the festival is on novel, tasty and healthy wild food. Tasty obviously being very subjective.

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Scottish Cuisine

Scotland is home to the haggis and famed for it's salmon but Scotland has never really been known for it's cuisine.
Like many other countires, Scotland's traditional recipes were a result of the food available and it is for this reason that many of the Scottish recipes are closely relatated to a specific area of Scotland. Scotland's, rather unique, climate, landscape and coastline have led to an amazing variety natural foods; superb beef (Aberdeen-Angus), venison and lamb, freshly caught salmon, trout and shellfish, vegetables and fruit. All have contributed greatly to Scottish cooking.
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Iranian or Persian Cuisine

Persian Recipes

Iranian or Persian Cuisine, one of the oldest cuisines in the world Iran was known as Persia until 1935 but still today the cuisine is generally known as Persian rather than Iranian. It sounds far more exotic in my humble opinion. The ruler at that time was , Reza Shah, but in 1953, Mohammad Reza Shah (the son of Reza Shah) stated that the names of Iran and Persia were equally acceptable. This is an amazing country which I have visited on many occasions and the food is fantastic.




Persian cuisine is really well known for its delicate use of mixed spices, the variety of side plates ("mokhalafat") used to enhance meals, the serving of rice as an accompaniment with many dishes, and the popularity of tea ("chai").

This Iranian tea or Chai is drank with any meals, and throughout the day generally as with many other cultures I guess.

Mokhalafat are side plates used to accompany meals. There are many such side plates that may be used, and they are generally consider to be an important, even essential part of the meal. Really popular mokhalafat include khiyarshur (pickles), naan (Iranian flat unleavened bread), panir (Iranian cheese similar to feta), sabzi (a plate of mixed herbs), and torshi (relishes).
Rice is also really popular in Persian Cuisine and it is eaten with most meals and is prepared in a variety of ways.

Persian Recipes

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