Each May, duck shooters take to the waterways around New Zealand, for the annual game duck season.  This year the season “opening day”, the first Saturday in May, is 7 May.  The season then runs for three months, through our winter.

But the wild duck and its hunting season is not for all of us.  There is, by alternative, the year-round domestic duck, in New Zealand - perfect for a delicious taste of a dish enjoyed throughout the country, but tracing its history back more than seven centuries, to a land far from New Zealand.