Nathan Weathington
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Anytime Cornbread Recipe
It’s bread, but not as you know it. Cornbread is easy, fast, delicious, healthy(ish), and with a slight change of ingredients can be a tasty addition to almost any meal. For dinner, it can be served with soups, Mexican or as a side for your meat and veg. For lunch, use it as the bun…
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All roads lead to snow
The 1964 guide to the ski roads of the South Island. WE HAVE TO DRIVE TO THE SNOWLINE HERE, UNLIKE IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND THE ROAD UP TO ANY NEW ZEALAND SKI FIELD IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF ITS FOUNDING STORY. Early paths carved by bulldozers, winches and good keen humans opened…
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Book review: Fine Line – Twelve Environmental Sculptures Encircle the Earth
By Martin Hill & Philippa Jones (Bateman Books) Fine Line is a global environmental art / science project, which draws a symbolic fine line around the earth and connects 12 ephemeral sculptures. Each work was created in situ using the natural materials available at each site, such as snow, as featured in the cover photograph…
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Let the good times roll
The 1964 guide to the small town cheese rolls of the South Island. THE CHEESE ROLL IS AN EMBLEM OF SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. CAFES AND DOMESTIC DEITIES HAVE BEEN CLAIMING THEY MAKE THE ULTIMATE ONE FOR DECADES. IT’S A DIVISIVE DEBATE. DO YOU ALIGN WITH THE CLASSIC (GRATED CHEESE FILLING WITH A BIT OF EVAPORATED MILK…
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What’s the story with puffas?
On four types of puffer and why the down jacket does not mean the same thing to all people. WHAT’S THE STORY WITH G AND THE PUFFA JACKET? I ASKED MY FRIEND S. She worked with G when we started dating back in 2011. S and I had immigrated from the same small town in…
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You’ve got to take the bitter with the sweet
A sailor in the hop gardens of Nelson Tasman. THE SCENT LURED ME CLOSER TO THE BRICK WALL IN THE GREENHOUSE. LIME GREEN BINES CREPT UP THROUGH THE GRAVEL AND CLIMBED FIVE METRES TO THE GLASS ROOF. I REACHED OUT TO PRESS A DELICATE, FLUFFY CONE AND YELLOW POWDER COVERED MY FINGERTIPS. I brought the…
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Book Review: A Bunk for the Night
by Shaun Barnett, Rob Brown and Geoff Spearpoint If you’ve read the original Bunk for the Night, you know it’s more than a guidebook. It’s escapism. It’s fantasy. It makes you get your map out, check your gear and plan a trip. It is the ultimate conversation starter. Aotearoa has a vast range of backcountry…
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Sound and vision
What’s a nice Post Rock band like EchoKnot doing in a place like Queenstown? THE LIST OF ECHOKNOT’S THREE MEMBERS TELLS YOU A LOT. JOE BARRON-COWIE IS ON “GUITARS, KEYS AND PROGRAMMING”, SCOTT KENNEDY DOES “GUITARS, KEYS AND VISUALS”, WHILE ANDY PATERSON TAKES CHARGE OF “BASS AND NIHILISM”. CHECK. THERE IS NO LEAD SINGER, THERE…
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Time killers: The 1964 guide to hut games
How to win friends and battle boredom in the WiFi-less purgatory that is a backcountry hut. A BACKCOUNTRY HUT IS A TOUGH PLACE FOR AN INTROVERT. NO MATTER HOW REMOTE, THERE’S ALWAYS THE CHANCE YOU’LL BE SHARING YOUR SHELTER WITH STRANGERS, AND YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO TALK TO THEM. Huts are a social…