The next day when we were visiting the Selwyn region of Christchurch I met a chef and three wine growers. We were all busy talking about wine and food when the chef at Langdale Restaurant Lauren Carmichael touched a display of cheeses with a bunch of picture perfect pinot noir grapes that she casually mentioned a grape harvest cake that she makes. We stopped the conversation straight and asked her to describe this cake to us and then asked her for the recipe. Lauren, a reader of the blog explained how she gleaned the grapes from the recent harvest and how she often forages for food picked from neighbours' trees. They don't mind, she often gifts them a wedge of cake using the item in their letterbox and it seemed like a perfectly fun way of procuring the freshest, seasonal produce.