Canterbury’s February earthquake has resulted in a move north for Celia Hay and her School of Food & Wine.

The lingering aroma of stale rubbish is a potent reminder to Celia Hay of the day she and her teenage boys, Oliver and Daniel, swooped into their earthquake-ravaged apartment to collect as many valuables as they could carry after the Christchurch earthquake on February 22. The stale smell still taints the family car; a less than pretty aromatic reminder of a bag of rubbish they also took out with them.

Within minutes, the earthquake had destroyed not only their home but also their restaurant, Hay’s, and the NZQA-registered food and wine school Hay began in 1995.

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