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Lynda McGregor, owner of Little Bread Loaf,
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A Māori-owned pastry shop in Wellington is bringing pretzels, rēwena bread and manaakitanga to its brand-new shop in the eastern residential areas.
Little Bread Loaf owner Lynda McGregor is broadening her pastry shop’s reach with a 2nd shop in Miramar to match its Lower Hutt pastry shop.
McGregor (Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Kuia, Te Atiawa, Te Whānau a Apanui, me Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi) operated in the general public sector for 25 years before her youth memories of rēwena bread stimulated a restored interest on the planet of breadmaking.
“I was standing in my cooking area in my home in Lyall Bay and I was considering rēwena bread, and after that understood I just had one auntie who was left alive who understood how to make rēwena bread, and after that I went on the journey of mentor myself how to make that.”
She started shooting her trials and successes with rēwena on YouTube and the pastry shop started to remove.
“As a single moms and dad I was on an extremely little earnings, and I believed if I can make bread and I can teach individuals how to make bread, then individuals will never ever be starving. It began from a location of requirement and desiring to sustain my whānau and my kids, then it grew into mentor.”
McGregor stated food sovereignty, offering individuals the tools to produce their own kai, is an exceptionally fundamental part of her company. Her rēwena dish was established for anybody to utilize.
“How I teach individuals to make that starter bug is truly basic … any person can take flour, they can take potatoes, they can take water and a bit of sugar and they can turn it into an item that will sustain their whānau.”
When McGregor, a Lyall Bay regional herself, saw a chance to open a store in Miramar she took it – specifically considering that the pastry shop was currently popular enough that she was making unique shipments on her commute home from Lower Hutt.
“I utilized to provide here after deal with a Sunday since individuals could not come out to Alicetown, so then I began to provide to them. And we have an excellent credibility for our food, however more notably we have a great track record for our manaaki and how we care for our consumers.”
Lynda McGregor, owner of Little Bread Loaf,
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McGregor stated tikanga was her point of distinction as a Māori-owned company.
“Of course I’m enthusiastic about my rēwena bread, I’m enthusiastic about our bakeshop however I’m likewise enthusiastic about Māori in service and organization design I’ve developed.”
Worths like manaakitanga (hospitality) and whakawhanaungatanga (relationship structure) were at the heart of her organization, she stated.
“I’m in service, I’m in company to generate income, I’m in company to promote the economy – however we do it in a manner that sits really near to our worths and my worths as Māori.
“At the centre my company has to do with manaaki, so that’s how we take care of each other, how we take care of our consumers and how we take care of our environments.”