\KAI - FOOD
WALT: Investigate traditional gathering and harvesting of Kai
Tradition Maori Kai
- Kai is the Maori name for food.
- Before weapons such as guns and metal tools the Maori used the resources they had around them help them hunt, fish and grow cultivating crops.
- The Maori harvested there food from the forest, streams, the sea and their own garden
- The traditional Maori Kai diet was based on birds, fish and supplements by wild herbs a d roots
- In their own garden they grew root crops such as potato and Kumara ( sweet potato )
- Maori used a hangin to cook their Kai which are underground ovens, they also used natural pools of boiling Warner and stream water.
- In traditional hangi cooking Kai such as meat and vegetable were cooked underground.
- Maori still continue to harvest and hunt eels, fish and Kina from the sea and streams
- Puha is also a crop Maori harvest and it is a greens leafy vegetable found growing wild.
- Eels, tuna were the Maori favorite along with many spices along the coastline
https://media.newzealand.com/en/story-ideas/kai-traditional-maori-food/
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