Famous across the Pacific region, there’s an unusual style of cooking that has refused to go out of fashion for thousands of years thanks to the delicious dishes it produces. Most popular in New Zealand, where it’s called “Hāngi”, the art of Hāngi is a deceptively simple affair that involves a pit, rocks, leaves and hot ashes beneath it all. Combining the high temperatures of a wood-burning oven with moisture trapped inside the leaf-wrapped food, the hot pit (full of smoky rocks and the aromas of hot turf) imparts its own incredible flavors.
