SNIPPETS

Though not yet out of her teens, Olivia

Moore is out to promote healthy eating with maximum flavour with her Top

That! range of meal toppers. Taupō-based Olivia set up her business at the age of 15, making vegan, refined-sugar-free and gluten-free blends to strew over meals, sprinkle over baking, grind up for a crumb coating, or simply scoff from the packet. With the support of the Young Enterprise Scheme and a Kickstarter funding campaign, she created a brand, designed packaging and began selling her products through retailers and at local markets. topthat.thatgreenolive.com

The team at Hōhepa Hawke’s Bay is celebrating winning a raft of medals, including two golds for its artisan Vintage and Danbo cheeses, at the prestigious NZ Champions

of Cheese Awards 2022. Hōhepa is a notfor-profit organisation that supports people with intellectual disability throughout Aotearoa. hohepahawkesbay.com

Wairarapa chocolate company Schoc

Chocolate has created a special Matarikiinspired chocolate block, reminiscent of smoky bonfires and kūmara, to celebrate New Zealand's newest public holiday. schoc.co.nz

Head to Mt Smart Stadium on 23 July for the inaugural Pacific Cacao & Chocolate

Show 2022 – a celebration of the Pacific’s cacao and chocolate history, innovation and potential. To mark this occasion, four new competitions will reward farmers, bean-to-bar makers, youth innovators and chocolate lovers. The winners of the farmers’ category will have their beans sent to the prestigious Cocoa of Excellence Competition in Paris. pacificcacao.org.nz

State of Play – New Zealand’s first and only 100% zero-alcohol brewery – has released its first brew, the State of Play IPA, a balance of New Zealand hop bitterness, Canterbury malt backbone and less than 0.5% alcohol. State of Play produces its zero-alcohol beers by brewing them without alcohol from the start, rather than removing it from a regular beer and then adding flavours back in to compensate. stateofplaybeer.com

Well-loved Queenstown and Auckland restaurant brand Botswana Butchery has expanded across the ditch, with a new 300 seat restaurant in Melbourne’s Flinders Lane.