Burgerfuel’s growth in Middle East

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Auckland-based meat exporter and franchisor Burgerfuel is using its range of halal menu options to fuel its growth in the Middle East, according to a halal market article in NZ Trade & Enterprise’s latest Export News e-newsetter. The company has recently opened outlets in Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and is now looking further afield in the region. Marketing manager Alexis Lam says the fact that grass-fed New Zealand beef has been halal for some time made the initiative viable in the first place.  “There seems to be a healthy respect for the Halal certification we have in New Zealand,” says Lam. Read more …

Rump steak to biltong

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New Zealand beef rump steak makes excellent biltong, Sciencelens photographer Gerry le Roux and his wife have found. His wife made the pictured biltong – cured meat – right here in New Zealand from a “nice piece of New Zealand rump” steak. Gerry says it’s a very popular delicacy to anyone (who isn’t a vegetarian) who grew up in South Africa, as he did. “And it is (to me) a great meaty snack to nibble on as an alternative to chips or other salty snacks.”
(Photograph ©Sciencelens – used here with permission).