Abstract
New Zealand is perhaps the furthest shore that the influence of Greek cuisine has reached, after receiving Greek immigrants in their largest numbers as part of the general diaspora of Greeks before and after the Second World War. Strong connections were formed between New Zealand and Greece, perhaps none more so than during the Battle of Crete in 1941, where ‘kiwi’ soldiers fought to defend Greeks. The majority of Greek immigrants to New Zealand settled in Wellington, the capital and then the most cosmopolitan of the small nation’s cities, where a major form of employment was in the food and hospitality industry. This paper reflects on the culinary impact of these immigrants on New Zealand after the war, and identifies some of the stories they tell of migration, work and identity though the food they ate at home.
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