Auckland University of Technology is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college was granted university status. AUT is New Zealand's third largest university in terms of total student enrolment, with approximately 29,100 students enrolled across three campuses in Auckland. It has five faculties, and an additional two specialist locations: AUT Millennium and AUT Centre for Refugee Education.
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Awards, which ran from 1968 to 1995.
Pansy Yu Fong Wong is a New Zealand former politician.
The cuisine of New Zealand is largely driven by local ingredients and seasonal variations. As an island nation with a primarily agricultural economy, New Zealand yields produce from land and sea. Similar to the cuisine of Australia, the cuisine of New Zealand is a diverse British-based cuisine, with Mediterranean and Pacific Rim influences as the country has become more cosmopolitan.
MasterChef New Zealand is a New Zealand competitive reality television cooking show based on the original British version of MasterChef.
Annabel Rose Langbein is a New Zealand celebrity cook, food writer and publisher. She has published over 30 cookbooks, and co-produced three seasons of her award-winning television series, Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook, which launched on the TV One network in New Zealand and has since screened in more than 90 countries.
Ken Albala is an American food historian, chef, author, and a professor of history at University of the Pacific. He has authored or edited 29 books on food and co-authored "The Lost Art of Real Cooking" and "The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home."
Damon Ieremia Salesa is a New Zealand academic. Of Samoan descent, he is the first Pacific person to hold the position of vice-chancellor at a New Zealand university.
Nadia Rui-chi Lim is a New Zealand celebrity chef, entrepreneur, food writer and television personality. Lim is known as the self-proclaimed "Nude Cook" as an advocate of natural, unprocessed foods, and for creating healthy, nutritious recipes by putting a health focus behind food, which is influenced by her background as a clinical dietitian.
Bethany Kehdy is a Lebanese-American Chef, cookbook author, presenter and beauty pageant titleholder. She specialises in the cuisines of the Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa.
Helen May Leach is a New Zealand academic specialising in food anthropology. She is currently a professor emerita at the University of Otago.
Julie Le Clerc is a New Zealand food writer, chef, former cafe owner and caterer and a presenter on TV food shows.
Monique Tumema Fiso is a New Zealand chef and author known for her contribution to the revival of Māori and Polynesian cuisine.
Regina Aurelia Scheyvens is a New Zealand development academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and poverty reduction, and she has conducted fieldwork on these issues in Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Maldives and in Southern Africa. She is also very interested in gender and development, sustainable livelihood options for small island states, and in theories of empowerment for marginalised peoples.
Nawal Nasrallah is a U.S.-based Iraqi food writer, food historian, English literature scholar, and translator from Arabic into English. She is best known for her cookbook featuring Iraqi cuisine, entitled Delights from the Garden of Eden, and for editions of medieval Arabic cookbooks, including Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, an annotated translation of the tenth-century, Abbasid-era cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq. She has won numerous awards for her writing and her translations.
Gorontalese cuisine or Gorontalo cuisine is the traditional cuisine of the Gorontalese People of Gorontalo Peninsula, North Sulawesi island, Indonesia. It is also known as Hulontalo cuisine by perantauan (migrating) Gorontalo people after "Hulontalo", the name for Gorontalo in the local language.
Heike Annette Schänzel is a German–New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of Hospital and Tourism at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in research on gender and family issues in tourism.
Hannah Buckley is a New Zealand ecologist, and is a full professor in the school of science at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in biological variation in community ecological diversity through time and space.
Candice Amanda Harris is a New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Management at Auckland University of Technology, specialising in employee career experiences, gendered experiences in both paid and unpaid work, academic careers and women's careers.
