Coffee
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... Café culture has become integral to Wellington's identity. This culture began in the 1930s with the emergence of the milk bar, followed by coffee houses in the 1950s. After a period of decline in the 1960s and 70s, the city's café scene has grown in spectacular fashion over the last 20 years?
Pavlova
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... the pavlova - that frothy, baked confection of egg whites and sugar - has long been seen as an icon of New Zealand cuisine?
Formerly the typical New Zealand food
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...typical New Zealand meals (particularly in the country) until at least the 1970s featured hearty morning and afternoon teas of homemade scones, biscuits and cakes; rich dinners of fatty roast meat, gravy and vegetables were followed by pudding?
