Feijoa Ambassadors around the world

In a recentarticle featuring London based chef Peter Gordon, he pondered what Brexit means for people from around the world who live in Britaian – “Once Brexit happens, do we have to leave the country?’ There are no clear directives going out to people.”

But of course he’s not seriously considering calling it quits in London; he has his restaurants, his doughnut business Crosstown and his home in Hackney. There’s a feijoa tree in the garden. “In seven years, it’s produced four tiny feijoas. Pathetic!”

He’s such a big fan of the Kiwi favourite, little known in Britain, that he often features them on the menu at The Providores. Imported from South America, they’re not quite as pathetic as his homegrown ones, but “nothing like the feijoas we have here – they’re only 75 per cent what they should be”.

Feijoa features in a New Zealand yoghurt Gordon has recently put his name to, a collaboration with The Collective. The feijoa, ginger and vanilla yoghurt is raising funds for The LAM Trust, which raises awareness of a rare lung condition, lymphangioleiomyomatosis, that affects women between the ages of 25 and 45. The trust was set up by Gordon’s good friend Bronwyn Gray, whose daughter suffers from the condition.

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