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UN General Assembly High Level Week

Fish Head and Clam Chowder

This soup is based on a soup we’d often eat when I was a child – although what Dad made was much simpler and certainly didn’t have miso or shiitake mushrooms in it. Our food was very simple but my Māori heritage meant I was born to love fish heads. In Māori culinary culture they’re often thought of as the best part, reserved for chiefs. In Western culture they and the frames are thought of as a by-product to the chosen cut – the fillet. In my cooking class ‘Kai Moana’ (seafood) I teach people how to eat the whole fish from head to tail, including this recipe. I also teach it to communities living with food poverty (albeit I often make it simpler and less expensive) and we work with our great friends at Papatūānuku Kōkiri Marae in Mangere East and the Kai Ika Project – who have saved hundreds of tonnes of heads and frames from ending up in landfill or on the ocean floor and instead been gifted to their community – feeding people with little cost.

Green Goddess Soup

This is my recipe using all parts of the broccoli plant that I grew from seeds on my terrace garden. I've used parts of the plant that are otherwise thrown away and wasted, such as the leaves and the stems, as they are thought to be a surplus part of the plant with verv little nutrients and flavour. However, these parts contain much of the same, if not more, nutrients that the broccoli florets carry. Broccoli is what is known as a 'nutrient dense' food, which means that it packs a lot of vitamins and minerals into relatively few calories, so you can get everything your body needs