Western News: October 29, 2020
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living lifE OCTOBER <strong>2020</strong><br />
DisCOvERing POsiTivE RETiREMEnT<br />
SharIng joy<br />
through bISCuItS<br />
C ommunity inf luencer<br />
The aroma of biscuits has filled the home of Gianni<br />
Barbafiera since childhood. Moving his wife and<br />
young daughters from South Africa decades ago<br />
in the quest for a safer environment and a more<br />
opportune life, Gianni spends his days working<br />
for Hamilton Jet and his Saturday mornings at the<br />
Riccarton Farmers Market showcasing his variety<br />
of cultural delicacies at his booth, Wooden Spoon.<br />
Referred to as the ‘biscuit man’, we caught up with<br />
him to talk about his customers favourites.<br />
what’s your history with<br />
biscuits?<br />
My father was born in a small Tuscan town in Italy.<br />
He migrated to South Africa in the early sixties,<br />
where he met my lovely mother and my four<br />
siblings, and I grew up.<br />
My earliest recollections, when I was very young,<br />
probably only three or four years old, include<br />
wonderful memories of a weekly home baking<br />
routine. My grandmother employed a wonderful<br />
cook, who would make a selection of biscuits,<br />
my favourites being the flower shaped one with<br />
a cherry in the middle. Baking was part of my<br />
childhood and upbringing.<br />
The nineties were a period of uncertainty in South<br />
Africa, and so my young family at the time, arrived<br />
in New Zealand, ready to re-start our lives.<br />
a biscuit smorgasbord<br />
Most of our early biscuits had an Italian origin,<br />
but not being bound by the restrictions of Italian<br />
traditions, we were free to explore the entire world<br />
of biscuits. Not only Italian Ricciarelli, Cavallucci<br />
and Biscotti, but German Pheffer Küken,<br />
American Snickerdoodles, Scottish shortbread,<br />
English Garibaldis and more.<br />
My wife is the baker and I’m the front of the house.<br />
We pride ourselves on tradition, authenticity and<br />
quality.<br />
any time for a hobby?<br />
Week days are spent with a job I enjoy, Saturdays<br />
are filled with talking with customers who have<br />
become friends, family and I do like to sing in our<br />
Parish choir. Stop by the Biscuit stall, The Wooden<br />
Spoon Saturday morning 9-12 at the Riccarton<br />
Farmers Market.<br />
gIveawayS<br />
enter to win a bag of one<br />
dozen cookies of your choice<br />
from the wooden Spoon.<br />
email your name and contact<br />
details to giveaways@<br />
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drawing held november 15th.<br />
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