With the release of the 2008/09 nutrition survey summary report last week, I was heartened to read that diet-wise, New Zealand adults seem to be starting to make the right choices. According to the survey, since 1997 we’ve reduced our… Read More ›
Food Trends 
Do tales of expensive tomatoes really protect the public interest?
Media are required to walk a fine line between generating interest from their publics while ensuring they are not misrepresenting facts to do this.They also tend to target one aspect of an issue to illustrate a point with the effect… Read More ›
When is a healthy recipe not a healthy recipe?
It has become the fashion for most, if not all, of our lifestyle magazines to present what they call “healthy recipes”. This is a development that concerns me, not for the fact they are promoting healthy food, but because such recipes… Read More ›
Going the gluten free way
Being recently diagnosed by a dietitian as having a gluten intolerance, I wandered along to the Gluten Free Food & Allergy Show over the weekend. It’s an annual roadshow of producers, tasters, and information stalls, all bundled into one room… Read More ›
Food Week dishes up popular cooking tips
There’s only 2 more days to go in the inaugural New Zealand Nutrition Foundation Food Week! Having completed 16 radio interviews and five interactive celebrity cooking demos with audiences of hundreds, and with 600 “likes” on the Food Week Facebook page,… Read More ›
Our food is cheap – but don’t expect us to accept it
A recurring theme for the balance of this (election) year will, I suspect, be food prices, particularly with the soaring price of petrol. Despite our deep grumbles about prices, we bow to the oil barons, and attempt to revert to… Read More ›
Understanding food
We all need food to survive, but in an age where you can shop for it 24/7, heat and eat it and get it without leaving your car, have we lost our understanding of food? Having a basic understanding of… Read More ›
One meal, many cultures
Recently I was lucky enough to dine at ‘Eight’ Restaurant in the Langham Hotel. When described to me by a friend, the words ‘buffet’ and ‘hotel’ in the same sentence ensured my expectations remained modest, but as it turns out… Read More ›
The best memories are anchored in our tastebuds
What’s your most memorable meal? One of mine was a steaming hot vegetable tagine, eaten on a rooftop high in the Atlas mountains during a trip to Morocco. It was memorable, not only because it was authentic, delicious and nutritious,… Read More ›
en•gage•ment (in-geidj-mint)
n. 1. The act of engaging or the state of being engaged. 2. Betrothal. 3. Something that serves to engage; a pledge. 4. A promise or agreement to be at a particular place at a particular time. 5. a. Employment,… Read More ›