Shuchi Kothari, a screenwriter, explores untold stories about the role that food preparation, ritual and style plays in the process of adaptation and loss in multicultural New Zealand. Cooking with Niueans, Chinese, Dalmatians, Ethiopians, Anglo-New Zealanders, and Indians, she unravels the often taken-for-granted politics of food and cultural identity. In her travels she also discovers a place that is eager to embrace cosmopolitan flavours but is less enthusiastic about the presence of foreign-born immigrants.