Life & Style

Natural wonders abound

Australian travel writer Sandip Hor discovers there is more to Iceland than the Northern Lights.

Removing the grit

AI, Botox, weight-loss drugs ... are we in danger of losing the wrinkles that give life its grit? asks Eva Wiseman.

Ingredients for a cooking classic

Above: St Andrew’s Church, postcard by Muir and Moodie. Top: St Andrew’s Cookery Book, 12th...

Ingredients for a cooking classic

An early Dunedin recipe book told a story about the city’s inhabitants, Peter Read writes.

Waiting for Matariki to rise

There’s a bend in the shared pathway out on Otago Peninsula just before you round the corner to Broad Bay.

Balinese cuisine

About a month ago I came back from a two-week trip to Bali with my family.

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Marvellous opportunity to be seduced

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Marvellous opportunity to be seduced

Today, a marvellous opportunity awaited in the guise of four sub-regional expressions of pinot noir by Valli and two newcomers from Domaine Thomson.

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Feijoa jam

This recipe was passed on to me from a kind lady who was tending to my son’s injuries.

Slow and steady wins in health and taste

People want a way to cook and eat that fulfills all the criteria — tasty, healthy, affordable, convenient and comforting.

Sooty fingerprints of sister species

Ludovic Slimac looks on at the excavation of the Grotte de Mandrin. Photo: Gregoire Bernadi

Sooty fingerprints of sister species

In 1957, my brother Richard and I travelled on our 59cc NSU mopeds from our home in Wimbledon to central France to spend our summer digging in the cave of Arcy-sur-Cure.

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Never again

Dunedin man Emir Hodzic survived a genocide.

Power to the plastic-free people

Attendees at a Wastebusters SipNSew event making reusable produce bags. Photo: Wastebusters

Power to the plastic-free people

It’s time to raise your own cup to Plastic Free July again.

Good food is only right

Food is a human right, but beyond that, is the right to food sovereignty.

Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

Dunedin Botanic Garden staff shift mulch at a teamwork day in the garden. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

As we head into the winter months at Dunedin Botanic Garden our focus has been on tidying up the borders ready for mulching.

Your garden

What to do in your garden this week.

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Op shops a trove of treasures

Proving that one person's trash is another person's treasure, a Dunedin woman has furnished her home with free and thrifted pieces. Kim Dungey reports.

Comforting food for winter

As the days get chilly, there's plenty of delicious recipes to make and enjoy in our Fresh Winter Edition.

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Heartfelt kai

As the winter stars rise once again, we honour Matariki.

About both journey, destination

The "Sotetsu" cycad palm tunnel at Kanamisaki, on the northeastern cape of Tokunoshima.

About both journey, destination

While Japan welcomed an incredible 37 million international visitors last year, there are still parts of the country that host few foreign tourists and don’t seem to have changed much in the past few decades, Queenstown travel writer Craig McLachlan finds.