The smells and taste of the Middle East came to Kapiti on Friday evening. 24 participants paid $50 per head to attend a chef-less cooking class at Kapiti College. Organised by Keryn Mells, the first Kapiti Kitchen Class, in teams of three, cooked recipes from the Ottolenghi book Simple. Although there were a few mishaps, the food was successfully turned out in less than two hours. Following laminated instructions, the participants cooked nine dishes that included chicken with ginger, miso and lime; mustardy cauliflower cheese; and fish cake tacos with mango, lime and cumin yogurt. Simple indeed.
Film Noir Photos in Kapiti | Murray Lloyd Photography
It was good fun trawling the streets of Kapiti to take photos of new LED lighting. Other locations were more industrial but this one felt like film noir. Maybe I should have posed a model staring into space out of an open car door in a similar way to Gregory Crewdson. He established an international following creating cinematic, dreamlike images of American suburbs.