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Kakano means “seed” in Māori. For Jade Temepara, a Māori woman who was crowned New Zealand’s Gardene...
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Kakano means “seed” in Māori. For Jade Temepara, a Māori woman who was crowned New Zealand’s Gardener of the Year in 2012, though, it means a lot more. Temepara owns Kākano, a Māori restaurant and cooking school in Christchurch, on New Zealand’s South Island.
Even a first-time tourist to New Zealand will notice the presence of the Māori culture and language everywhere. Now, so many non-Māori young people learn the language — a trend that picked up after the passage of the Māori Language Act in 1987 — that it’s not unusual to hear teens and twenty somethings of European descent in Auckland asking their friends if they want to hang out and get some kai (food) later. That’s a striking contrast from several generations ago, when New Zealand law banned Māori in schools, either in written or spoken form.
While Temepara was happy to see the Māori language make a comeback, there were still parts of her native culture that were less present in New Zealand’s daily life. She felt that too few Māoris of her generation were trained in their culture’s traditional cooking methods and native ingredients (原料). That’s when Temepara came up with the idea of launching a cooking education program that would go into Māori schools and other community gathering places to teach classes in traditional Māori cooking and food preparation.
The idea was so successful that it eventually led to a brick-and-mortar cafe and shop in central Christchurch. There, Temepara trades in traditional kai — look for cold smoked mussels, karengo (a native seaweed), Manuka honey and a native variety of sweet potato called kumara.
Although many of the ingredients grow wild in New Zealand, that doesn’t mean just anybody can harvest them.
“The Māori subtribe Katti Menguai are the only ones that are allowed to have some, if they come from a lineage of chiefs. It is by bloodline only. You can’t even be invited. If you’re not blood, that’s it, you can’t go. My family is of that lineage. And so, traditionally we would harvest the birds.” This is both a tribal (部落的) practice and an accepted national law.
1.Why is the Māori language popular again in New Zealand?
A.Its food is becoming welcome.
B.The language law supporting it has been passed.
C.The young are more interested in its culture.
D.Speaking it becomes a status symbol.
2.How does Temepara feel about the return of the Māori language?
A.Worried. B.Confused.
C.Excited. D.Surprised.
3.What is the purpose of the cooking education program?
A.Making a profit from doing good.
B.Responding to local communities’ request.
C.Making Christchurch a perfect place for business.
D.Making Māoris feel accepted and proud of their identities.
4.What can be inferred from Temepara’s words?
A.A few have the privilege of harvesting the birds.
B.The ingredients for Māori food are hard to gain.
C.Her family are invited to gather the birds.
D.Her family has special blood types.
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