Kim Knight
Senior journalist and restaurant critic
Kim Knight is a Senior Writer for the New Zealand Herald.
Kim Knight has been a journalist with the Herald since 2016, working for its premium lifestyle and news sections and print magazine titles Viva, Reset, Travel and Canvas. A former magazine newspaper editor and four-time finalist for feature writer of the year, she has won multiple lifestyle and entertainment media awards and written two books - Homemade: Stories from New Zealand Stovetops and Simon Gault: No Half Measures. She studied at Auckland University of Technology, Master of Gastronomy; and Aoraki Polytechnic, Diploma of Journalism. Since 1989 she has worked for the Greymouth Evening Star, Timaru Herald and Sunday Star-Times, before joining NZME. She writes a fortnightly restaurant review for Canvas magazine. In 2023, she was named on the inaugural list of Top 50 Women In Food & Drink New Zealand. You can contact Kim at kim.knight@nzme.co.nz.
Check out Kim’s latest content
Avocado consumption has doubled. So why does the industry want us to eat even more?
Behind the scenes of the avocado on toast origin story.
Year of the pig? Auckland’s influx of runaway porkers
From road hogs to porcine pets - why are roaming pigs on the rise?
Avocado consumption has doubled. So why does the industry want us to eat even more?
Behind the scenes of the avocado on toast origin story.
Blood, bones & band aids: 10 meaty questions you were too afraid to ask your butcher
How long can you keep raw steak? Is wagyu worth it? We asked an expert.
'Milking Māori': Fonterra's attempt to trademark te reo slammed
The dairy giant applied on July 13 to trademark 12 Māori words.
The truth about cats and (conservation) dogs
Looking for a needle in a haystack? Or a cat on a pest free island? Send in the hounds!
Kane and Cloe: A love story, interrupted - 'I wish you'd stayed home that day'
On the 10th anniversary of Pike River, a widow's extraordinary bond with her son.