Food & Wine

'Sacred' family recipe

Otago Polytechnic culinary arts student Madi Hasselman takes a trip down memory lane with her recipe for dark chocolate cranberry cookies.

Carrot and fennel soup

Carrots and fragrant fennel make the perfect combination — sweet, savoury and aromatic.

Walk on the wild side

Nick Makrides is on a mission to inspire people to bake, but more importantly to get creative and make something only they can make.

Grape harvest chance to deepen knowledge

For me, having some understanding of where and how my glass of wine was grown and made, adds another layer of interest to the total experience.

Watson's Eatery's vegan mac and cheese

Watson's Eatery's vegan mac and cheese

Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.

Eating foods that nature intended

Apple cider vinegar slows the absorption of carbohydrates into the bloodstream and slows the...

Eating foods that nature intended

Eating a diet with a focus on regulating blood sugar levels will result in optimal functioning of certain hormones in our body and allow the feedback system to work properly, achieving higher energy levels.

1000 jobs chopped as Jamie shuts restaurants

British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's restaurant chain has gone into administration, leaving 1000 people without jobs as the majority of branches stopped trading immediately.

Pear cake

Pear cake

Pears never let you down as they are sweet and juicy and by adding them to your cake the results are sumptuous and moist. This cake is so delicious it could easily pass for a dessert.

Vault 21's red lamb curry

Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.

Pair add bish, bash to bosh

Pair add bish, bash to bosh

Henry Firth and Ian Theasby are passionate about creating delicious plant-based meals and it has translated into a massive social media following.

Geology lesson reward for climb up to vineyard

During the recent grape harvest, a small window of opportunity allowed me to scamper up the hill to the Prophet's Rock Vineyard in Bendigo, where I met Paul Pujol and Francois Millet.

Developing healthy relationship with food trumps diet-cycling

‘‘I can have it if I want it, but do I really feel like it?’’ Photo: Getty Images

Developing healthy relationship with food trumps diet-cycling

When people find themselves putting on weight after dieting they blame themselves, rather than realising that diets don’t work in the long term, says Otago Uni's Associate Prof Caroline Horwarth.

Restaurant opens in Macandrew Bay

The owners of a new restaurant in Macandrew Bay moved their business from Waikaia after a "little birdie'' told them about the vacant premises.

Hasselback roasted beetroot

Roasting beetroot brings out another level of flavour to these already flavoursome beauties.

Rhubarb's orzo salad

Rhubarb's orzo salad

Ask a Chef reveals the secrets of those superb dishes you ate in cafes and restaurants and wanted to try yourself.

Singular selection

Regular readers will know I try to taste (and report back on) wines in flights of comparable wines.

Go green

Go green

Add colour and goodness with the best seasonal greens, says Angela Casley.

Simple and sweet

It's Mother's Day this weekend and Donna Hay's new book provides plenty of inspiration for a homemade gift or if a mum is lucky enough to be given the gift of time, a chance for mothers to bake.