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    Tasty ways to celebrate the longest night

    The longest night of the year later this month provides a perfect opportunity for a winter feast.

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    Kimchi and tofu cabbage rolls

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    Kimchi and tofu cabbage rolls

    There’s something satisfying about wrapping a simple filling in cabbage and letting it cook gently in broth.

    Welcoming treats with Southeast Asian twist

    Raymond Tan with Audrey Payne authors of You're Welcome! PHOTO: LOUISE HAGGER

    Welcoming treats with Southeast Asian twist

    Homesickness and reality television led Raymond Tan to baking — to make the celebratory foods he missed from home and to see if doing so was as hard as the programmes made out.

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    Richer chardonnays pair well with autumn food

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    Richer chardonnays pair well with autumn food

    Today’s line-up revolves around a quintet of Central Otago offerings along with a interloper from Hawke’s Bay.

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    Students give oats a 21st-century makeover

    Otago Polytechnic Culinary Arts students’ oat creme stacks on sale at Otago Farmers Market....

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    Students give oats a 21st-century makeover

    As NZ food production is threatened, Dunedin culinary students are looking at ways to support and change perceptions of locally produced products like oats, Rebecca Fox finds.

    Perfect pairing

    Perfect pairing

    Lovely pears with succulent pork and crisp, crunchy crackling captures the turn of the season, writes Nigel Slater.

    Rice at heart of the table

    Rice at heart of the table

    In Malaysia most households have rice daily, for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner.

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    Feijoa and lime no-churn ice cream

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    Feijoa and lime no-churn ice cream

    There’s a short window where feijoas are at their best, soft, fragrant and impossible to ignore.

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    Amazing variety should not be overlooked

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    Amazing variety should not be overlooked

    Riesling can be bone dry, lusciously honeyed and sweet, and everything in between.

    Glaze of glory

    Glaze of glory

    Nigel Slater whips up some grilled chicken thighs to help us forget those cooling temperatures for a while.

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    Leek and feta pie

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    Leek and feta pie

    A simple pie with memories of the flavours of Greece.

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    Budget-friendly savoury oats are worth trying

    PHOTO: SAM SINCLAIR

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    Budget-friendly savoury oats are worth trying

    Oats can be super versatile, high fibre, budget friendly and healthy when made without the adding of dairy or sugar.

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    Emerging grape variety looking promising

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    Emerging grape variety looking promising

    Among the frontrunners for “alternative or emerging varieties” popping up in New Zealand, Albarino might just have snuck its head into the lead, but only by a nose (forgive the pun).

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    Knife sharpener lives up to promises

    HORL German knife sharpener. Photos: Markus Edgar Ruf.

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    Knife sharpener lives up to promises

    Lifestyle Editor Rebecca Fox tests out a new to New Zealand knife sharpener.

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    Heart and belly fillers

    Roasted, spice-rubbed beef sirloin. PHOTOS: JO ELWIN

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    Heart and belly fillers

    Jo Elvin shares some winter recipes from her pop-up lunches at Bannockburn’s Desert Heart vineyard with owner Jane Gill.

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    Pressing day offers insight into olive oil

    Press operator Steve Morris watches the malaxation stage of the pressing process, where crushed...

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    Pressing day offers insight into olive oil

    Close to 200 visitors passed through Olive Press Central Otago in Cromwell on Saturday for the Central Otago Olive Growers (COOG) annual community pressing day.

    Autumn yearnings

    Photo: Jonathan Lovekin, The Observer

    Autumn yearnings

    These tarts are a rhapsody in blue cheese and dry-cured deli delights, writes Nigel Slater.

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    Radicchio salad with feta, toasted seeds and hot honey

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    Radicchio salad with feta, toasted seeds and hot honey

    This is the kind of salad that wakes everything up.

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    A trio of uncommon joys

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    A trio of uncommon joys

    I’ve been tasting some of the lesser known (in NZ) grape varieties recently and wanted to showcase three excellent examples that would be great introductions to their respective varieties.

    Low key, high on flavour

    Low key, high on flavour

    Food hailing from the sunny Mediterranean coastline has been placed on a pedestal for decades.
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