6:35:13 Friday 22 August 2025

Kai time

The Bay of Plenty and Coromandel will host Pete Peeti and his television programme, ‘Kai Time on the Road' during its seventh season.

In the series, Pete gives rewena bread a modern twist in Rotorua and tries novelty chocolate in Te Arawa.
He samples the cheese at Matatoki and checks out a commercial hangi maker south of Matamata – before concocting his own hangi in a pie.
'It's just great to go to little places around the country to see what people are up to,” says Pete.
He says it could be at a restaurant, or food from a marae, a processing factory or a normal home kitchen.
Going behind the scenes at Maketu Pies was a bonus for the enthusiastic chef and pie lover.
He also got a lesson in fermenting corn, also known as Kaanga Pirau or Kaanga Wai, in Te Teko.
'It's a delicacy for the older people, but it's basically a dying art these days.
'It was an experiment that worked so it was a lucky break,” Pete jokes.
The show airs every Sunday on Maori TV.

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