19 Nov 2010

Heilala Vanilla: flavour from Tonga via Tauranga

From Country Life, 9:15 pm on 19 November 2010

A Tauranga based company grows a small crop of vanilla in its geothermal plastic house, but sources all its commercial vanilla from an isolated Tongan island. Heilala Vanilla won gold at the recent New Zealand Food Awards. Jennifer and Garth Boggiss are the New Zealand connection.