New Zealand foodies go wild for food festival

Creative foodies with a taste for wild fare have put the small town of Hokitika - on New Zealand’s South Island West Coast - on the international culinary map with an adventurous food festival that attracts thousands of intrepid gourmets.

From a grassroots local celebration, the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival has evolved over two decades into one of the world’s quirkiest food events - a gastronomic celebration of the weird but tasty wild foods harvested from the Coast’s bountiful forests, land, fresh waterways and ocean.

When the 23rd edition of the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival takes place on Saturday 10 March 2012, the little seaside town will welcome the biggest crowd of the year - up to 15,000 eager stomachs to satisfy with a bewildering spread of food stalls purveying delicacies destined to exercise the tastebuds of both the discerning and daring.


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