by David Wrigley | May 18, 2023 | Opinion
The world was a better place in late March. I’m not just saying that because I am temperamentally predisposed to believe that all things are get getting worse all the time and have been doing so forever. I’m not just saying that because it is colder now than it was...
by David Wrigley | May 10, 2023 | Opinion
This Sunday, across the length and breadth of Aotearoa, children and partners will be getting up at the crack of dawn to prepare breakfast in bed for the mother of their household. The thought behind this ritual, I suppose, it that poor mum is indentured to prepare...
by David Wrigley | May 3, 2023 | News
We at The Feed would never consider tapping the phoneline of a member of the royal family or anyone else for that matter. Nor would we plant a listening device in Charles and Camilla’s sitting room. And yet somehow we’ve managed to obtain this transcript...
by David Wrigley | Apr 27, 2023 | Opinion
An Utrecht-based chef Ernst de Witte was visiting the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam when he noticed an incongruity between one of the paintings and its wall label. Van Gogh’s still-life painting “Red Cabbages and Onions” (1887) was actually a painting of red cabbages...
by David Wrigley | Apr 20, 2023 | Opinion
Food that changed my mind: in the second of an occasional series we explore foods we misunderstood, misrepresented or mansplained away. Today David looks back on his early traumatic experience with pickled beetroot, and how it took a real mean head chef to change his...
