New-Zealand
Other Maori and Pacific Island post-colonial novelists include Witi Ihmaera, Patricia Grace,
and Albert Wendt. All have had an impact on the New Zealand literary scene in the 1980s and
'90s. Award winning novelist Keri Hulme achieved worldwide literary status with her Booker
Prize winning novel, The Bone People, in 1985 and is still writing from her home in the South
Island.
New Zealand Food & Wine
New Zealand producers some of the world's tastiest fresh food. Besides many restaurants
offering dishes from a wide variety of countries in Europe and Asia - France, Italy, Germany,
Austria, Greece, China, Thailand, India and Vietnam - as well as growing numbers of Middle
Eastern and Latin American restaurants, there is a Pacific-style New Zealand cuisine using the
abundant fresh meats, fish, vegetables and fruit in a creative manner.
New Zealand cuisine draws inspiration from Europe, Asia and Polynesia; Pacific-Rim is a