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Festival Photography - Denis LaTouche
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Olives, jazz, food, art, wine and song in the olive grove.
Come and celebrate the 2009 Waiheke harvest of extra virgin olive oil at the olive festival on:
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November.
Festival venue:
Rangihoua Estate
Olive Grove,
1 Gordons Road,
Rocky, Bay,
Waiheke Island.
Highlights from 2008:
Olives, jazz, food, art, wine and song in the olive grove. We Celebrated the 2008 Waiheke harvest of extra virgin olive oil at the olive festival on the 8th-9th November.
Tempt your taste buds. Visitors could meet the olive growers, taste the new season olive oil releases, recognised as some of the best in the world & buy at festival prices. The island’s olive harvest has high recognition from New Zealand awards to international acclaim. The olive tasting room served delectable foods including oysters, paella, pizza, coffee and Waiheke Island wines.
Free cooking demonstrations by inspirational cooks. Fresh flavours using extra virgin olive oil with Cable Bay chef, Will Thorpe; Pippa Cuthbert, international cook book author and food editor Next magazine and Waiheke foodwriter and cook, Sarah La Touche.
Free seminars were given each day including an appreciation of extra virgin olive oil, the elixir for life, with New Zealand's olive oil specialist Margaret Edwards and tours of the Rangihoua olive press room.
Sculpture walk in the grove, Art Out There, from Waiheke Community Art Gallery showcased art for the outdoors.
The festival was a great success - we’ll see you next year!
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