FOOD AWARDS
Wooden Spoon
takes top honours
Wooden Spoon
Boutique Freezery
received the awards
for their Blackcurrant
Crunch ice cream. Wooden Spoon
Boutique Freezery founders Sharon
Galeon and Midori Willoughby say
the creation of Blackcurrant Crunch
was the result of a happy confluence
of events.
A group of Otago Girls High School
students asked the Wooden Spoon
Boutique Freezery if they could help
create a new flavour for their Young
Enterprise Scheme called Spoon
Me, and then coincidentally the team
from ViBERi Organic Blackcurrants
got in touch. This serendipitous set
of events led to the creation of the
pretty purple ice cream which the
judges praised for its crunch and
fruity flavour.
Wooden Spoon was founded by
the pair in Wellington in 2011.
They specialise in small batch,
hand-crafted ice cream made with
quality ingredients. Their flavours
are inspired by memories from their
childhood, adventures to new places
and local New Zealand treasures.
Wooden Spoon has a history with
the Outstanding NZ Food Producer
Awards having won awards every
year. In 2018, they received a Gold
Medal for Wooden Spoon Boutique
Freezery Ca Phe Da and a Silver
Wellington’s Wooden Spoon
Boutique Freezery has
taken top honours in the
third annual Outstanding
NZ Food Producer Awards
being named Supreme
Champion as well as
taking out Emerson’s Dairy
Champion at the awards in
Auckland.
1) Head Judge Lauraine Jacobs; 2) Bart Zame and Hayden Dingle East Rock; 3) Chef Michael Coughlan of Provenance Meat; 4) East Rock Antony Salve (left); 5) David Crutchley Povenance Meat.
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22 MAY 2019