A QUICK WORD WITH ROBYN MALCOLM

I spent the first half of my childhood in a small town in the north of the South Island called Motueka. I’ve got really strong food memories of Motueka. My father used to fish every weekend and I grew up eating a lot of snapper, herring and cod, plus pāua [abalone] and scallops.

I just thought to myself after trying it, “Why are we feeding them this bland shit? And