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Calling all Gap Year or School Leavers!

New Zealand School of Food & Wine

Are you not sure what you want to do for the rest of 2019? Have you left school or contemplating a Gap Year?

Want the skills for that dream job? Choose Level 4 Cert in Food and Beverage, Barista, Wine & Spirits.

You will develop practical skills to enhance your career opportunities, learn about the world of wine and spirits and build pathways to more senior restaurant and hospitality roles.

Start your hospitality and event management career and join a fast growing industry. Are you creative and love people? Then this is the perfect career for you that can open doors locally and internationally.
Learn vital skills that you can use in various aspects of your career!

Includes:

Barista, Restaurant & Cafe service, LCQ

We start with the Barista Intensive, a two week programme where you learn about classic coffee styles, single origin coffees, roasting styles, working with milk and soy to make extraordinary coffees.

New Zealand and International Wines

How to how to taste and recognise the leading international grape varieties. You learn about the leading New Zealand wineries and styles of wine that make them famous. This course includes a day trip to Waiheke Island where you will visit three leading wineries.

Bartending, Cocktails & Mixology

In this cocktail and mixology module, you will study the key bartending skills and how to set up and operate a bar, point of sales system as well as how to make classic cocktails and the techniques of shaking, stirring, pressing and crushing.

Accommodation, Superyachts & Cruise Ships

Learn guest services for hotel accommodation and interior (cabin) training for Super Yachts.

And much much more.

Get in touch. Next intake July 11, 2019. Taking applications now.

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Riddle Me This, Neighbours! Bet You Can’t Guess It!

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5 days ago

What's your favourite recipe for courgettes?

Mei Leng Wong Reporter from NZ Gardener & Get Growing

Kia ora neighbours. If you've got a family recipe for courgettes, we'd love to see it and maybe publish it in our magazine. Send your recipe to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz, and if we use it in the mag, you will receive a free copy of our January 2025 issue.

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