Hello, kia ora,

We're Shelley and Amanda, curious types - writers for, and the team behind, The FoodPath NZ - from Aotearoa New Zealand, a little country at the bottom (or is it the top…) of the world.

We’re based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, and first became friends when we started working in a corporate setting together.  But that seems a lifetime (or two lifetimes) ago now. 

For a few years now we’ve been inspired by seeking splendid places, unearthing more about them, and figuring out their special place in Aotearoa New Zealand’s story.  Of course, like The FoodPath NZ suggests, we’re especially bothered to come across the best local food producers and eateries along the way, learning more about them too.

A while ago, we created an app containing a New Zealand food trail that covered New Zealand end to end, with many hundreds and hundreds of food producers, eateries and other splendid stops listed on it. Over the last couple of years, with all the changes in travel, we’ve had a change and migrated all of our efforts to the writing platform Substack instead. Now we focus on uncovering places to feature in postcards to all our Substack subscribers. And, for our paid Substack subscribers, we use our previous database and research methodology in creating and updating our albums of the many favourite spots we love visiting.

So on Substack we’re writing postcards about the places we’ve loved visiting - things we do and find - and only things we’ve researched and been to ourselves.  Maybe one day you’ll be nearby, to follow our path too.  Or maybe you’ll just enjoy reading about this part of the world, from wherever you are. And we post albums on Substack too, featuring collections of places that it’s useful to know about.

All our content is on Substack. To access our albums and our postcard archives, and to receive a few more insights from us from time to time, there’s a monthly or annual subscription available. It’s a tremendous boost to us, and our mission to feature the special places of Aotearoa New Zealand, if you are able to join our paid Substack subscriber community.

And we’d love you to be part of our continuing FoodPath journey. So please subscribe (you can do it here, which will take you to https://thefoodpathnz.substack.com)… and we’ll take you along to the places we’ve loved visiting. By doing so, you’d be supporting us, encouraging us to keep doing what we do. You’d be saying that writing matters, and we’d really appreciate that - in fact we’d be chuffed if you do.

As always, we do it ourselves.  And yes we’re totally independent.  So if we cover somewhere, you know we’ve been there, thought it was just the ticket, and wanted to find out more.   Nothing we do is a paid promotion - it’s all independently handpicked.   We’re independent… so you can be too.

Until next time, ka kite,
Amanda and Shelley

PS:  To use our photos or any of our content, please ask. And if you want to get in touch, we’d love to hear from you…  hello@thefoodpathnz.com.