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Dietary Requirements

The Spinoff

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Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 50

From your favourite guilty snacks to the fanciest feasts you'll find, Dietary Requirements discusses the high and low of the food scene in Aotearoa.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
13/04/2026
#93
🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
12/04/2026
#48
🇬🇧 Great Britain - food
30/08/2025
#72

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2021

Tuesday, December 21, 2021 • Duration 01:06:04

Hosted by Gone By Lunchtime’s Toby Manhire and featuring representatives from The Real Pod, The Fold, Nē? and Dietary Requirements, SUPERPOD 2021 is the crossover podcast event we’ve been waiting all year for. Join us as we relive the highs and lows and heroes and villains of the longest, shortest year in living memory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Live at Wellington On a Plate, on the future of hospitality

Monday, August 30, 2021 • Duration 34:25

In part two of Dietary Requirements’ live special recorded at Parrotdog brewery as part of Visa Wellington On a Plate 2021, Simon Day and Sophie Gilmour are joined by Kelda Hains (Rita) and Dominique McMillan (Floriditas) for a discussion about the future of restaurants and the hospitality industry. Recorded Sunday August 15, 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Brain food

Monday, May 3, 2021 • Duration 35:33

Angus Brown is the founder of Ārepa, and in this episode he joins us to explain what nootropics are and how his company uses them to make a drink that’s good for your brain. Alice and Simon give it a try to see if it helps them remember stuff. Angus is also a member of Future Food Aotearoa, a 10-person collective of emerging food tech leaders (including Dietary Requirements’ own Sophie), and they talk about how they're joining forces to help New Zealand become the Silicon Valley of the food scene. Join Rec Room – a weekly newsletter from The Spinoff full of recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to and eat. Sign up now at thespinoffrecroom.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Advanced Australian fare

Monday, April 19, 2021 • Duration 34:20

Crack open a carton of Oak flavoured milk, rip into a pack of BBQ Shapes and join Simon, Alice and Sophie for a special Australia themed episode of Dietary Requirements. We’re talking classic Aussie dining experiences, perennially disputed Australian / New Zealand foods, raving about Adelaide as a food city, remembering the time Simon got fired from an Australian-themed restaurant in Copenhagen – and taste-testing some kangaroo meat seared on the office sandwich press. Sign up to Rec Room – a weekly newsletter from The Spinoff full of recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to and eat. Subscribe now: thespinoffrecroom.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The case against hot cross buns

Tuesday, April 6, 2021 • Duration 33:31

Special guest Leonie Hayden joins Sophie and Simon to debate whether or not hot cross buns are in fact bad, taste test some New Zealand-grown wasabi and discuss how hospitality will handle the rise in minimum wage. Read the wasabi story here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/food/03-04-2021/meet-the-ex-cop-growing-wasabi-in-canterbury/ Sign up to Rec Room – a weekly newsletter from The Spinoff full of recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to and eat. Subscribe now: thespinoffrecroom.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Spinning the Lazy Susan

Sunday, March 14, 2021 • Duration 37:55

Food writer Anna King Shahab joins Dietary Requirements to talk about Lazy Susan, the Facebook group she co-founded where Aucklanders are sharing all their best food recommendations, and Auckland Eats, a new book celebrating some of the people who make the city's food scene so special. Sign up to Rec Room – a weekly newsletter from The Spinoff full of recommendations of things to watch, read, listen to and eat. Subscribe now: thespinoffrecroom.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Galentine's Day on the oysters

Thursday, February 11, 2021 • Duration 40:23

The full food pod squad assembles to talk about fine dining, Valentine’s Day dining and summer dining, including the location of the alleged best fish and chip shop in Aotearoa. Join Sophie, Simon and Alice as they reminisce about Antoine’s (02:00), the recently closed Auckland fine dining institution where only one of them ever actually ate. Seems like it would have been a good place to celebrate Valentine’s Day (09:55) – or is that day better spent hooning oysters with the gals? Simon reckons he’s found the best fish and chips in New Zealand (19:43), Sophie met a sourdough guy with the perfect sourdough guy name (32:14) and much more. Plus, find out how to get a free homemade mince and cheese pie from Simon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What makes the perfect pub?

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 • Duration 54:03

Sophie Gilmour and Simon Day are joined by special guest Hugo Baird, co-owner of Grey Lynn’s Honey Bones and Lilian, to talk about opening new pub Hotel Ponsonby. Auckland is a city of many bars but few really good pubs – the kind of places you’d be just as comfortable going with your parents as you would with your mates, on a Saturday night or for a Sunday lunch. The kind of place you can call your local. Hugo Baird set out to change that when he opened Hotel Ponsonby in the Ponsonby Post Office building late in 2020. The man behind some of Simon’s favourite spots, Hugo opened his first cafe Crumb when he was just 24, and now runs and owns Honey Bones cafe and neighbouring Lilian osteria and wine bar in Grey Lynn with his business partners Willy Gresson and chef Otis Gardner Schapiro. He joined Sophie and Simon for the first Dietary Requirements of 2021 for a chat about what makes a good pub, opening one of his own, cursed hospo spots and the chaotic year that’s been. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Summer reissue: Kai Māori with Monique Fiso

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 • Duration 47:00

Dietary Requirement is taking a break over summer. We'll be back soon, but until then we're republishing some of our favourite episodes of 2020. This week: Monique Fiso joins us to talk Kai Māori. Calling Monique Fiso’s new book a cookbook doesn’t really do it justice – there's so much more to it, tracing her personal journey and charting the history of kai Māori as well as guiding readers on how to incorporate indigenous ingredients and techniques into their own cooking. The book is titled Hiakai, also the name of Fiso’s Wellington restaurant which was last year included in a Time magazine list of The World’s 100 Greatest Places, among many other honours. Before opening Hiakai in 2018, she worked at some of New York’s best restaurants, and recently appeared on shows like Netflix’s The Final Table and National Geographic’s Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted. Since opening Hiakai, Fiso has been at the forefront of the revitalisation and celebration of kai Māori, and writing and researching the book allowed her to delve further into the techniques and ingredients of our indigenous culture. She joined Simon Day, Alice Neville and Sophie Gilmour on this week’s Dietary Requirements for a chat about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Summer reissue: Lockdown sourdough

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 • Duration 01:01:15

Dietary Requirement is taking a break over the summer holidays. We'll be back in the new year, but until then we're we're republishing some of our favourite interviews of 2020. This week: Henry Oliver joined us to talk the lockdown sourdough phenomenon. What are we talking about when we talk about sourdough? It’s basically just flour and water, but it’s so much more than that. To help unpack the lockdown sourdough phenomenon, former (and future) Metro editor and friend of the pod Henry Oliver joined regular Dietary Requirements hosts Simon Day, Alice Neville and Sophie Gilmour for this month’s episode. Henry got into making sourdough in a big way back in level four, and ended up publishing a whole book about it as part of Objectspace’s Ockham Lectures Pocket Edition series. Who better to taste-test Alice’s latest attempt, judge the quality of the crumb(?) and share tips on how to keep your starter alive and kicking? What qualities are we looking for in a good sourdough, and who sells the best loaf in New Zealand? There’s also a bit of mag chat around the sudden end and recently-announced resurrection of Metro magazine, and some discussion around the huge impact Covid-19 is having on the hospitality industry, and what needs to be done to keep the country’s eateries and drinkeries afloat. Find the Grizzly sourdough recipe Simon mentions here: A groundbreaking solution to the bread shortage: make your own! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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