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Corker porker top sausage
It's hard work finding the perfect sausage - it takes two days, with almost 50 judges tasting more than 460 entries.

Blog: A food hall on steroids
It's a food hall on steroids. Dozens of national cuisines are represented by stalls that sell various nations' street-food staples.

Quick meals under the microscope
Making that ready meal look appetising on the packet requires plenty of photographic skill and maybe a little rearrangement.

New restaurant forces diners to eat in silence
A restaurant in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood is serving up a four-course meal of organic, locally-sourced food, but isn't allowing any chit-chat.

McD's aims to make degree of difference
Working at McDonald's will gain credits towards a university degree in a deal between the fast-food giant and Massey University.

Dirty Dining Diary: The end
This month we embarked on the belly-aching journey of dining at every single eatery given a D rating in the Auckland central region.

Jamie Oliver ties with supermarket to end caged eggs
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has teamed up with Woolworths to phase out the sale of caged eggs at the supermarket giant.

12 Questions: Mark Wallbank
My uncle Allan Wallbank was an MP and he got me a job there as a waiter. I was on a bus to Wellington at 16.

Golden Arches' upward curve
McDonald's might be one of the giants of New Zealand's quick service restaurant market, but its boss reckons there's still plenty of room for the Golden Arches to grow.

Dirty Dining: Week 4 wrap
We may have uncovered the best chicken schnitzel in Auckland. On the flip side, we're pretty sure we found the worst curry.

Jamie Oliver: No stranger to controversy
No sooner does Jamie Oliver's latest cookbook hit the shops, than the Naked Chef goes and says something which whips up a frenzy.

BurgerFuel opens drive-through
New Zealand fast food operator BurgerFuel has cut the ribbon on what it claims is the world's first gourmet burger drive-through.

Blog: We're eating ourselves to death (and how to stop)
Something needs to change. Here are five tips to get eating habits back on track.