Peter Cullinane, co-founder of the premium butter manufacturer Lewis Road Creamery, has a dream that one day his artisan butter will be flown to top restaurants worldwide.

The drought conditions much of the country is facing could lead to much higher than usual levels of tutin in honey.

Cut-throat competition between the country's supermarket giants is resulting in some of the best cheese deals seen in years, with 1kg blocks of mild, colby and edam selling for as little as $6.99.

McCormick Produce Partners Sour Cream & Chive Potato Mash - $1.89 for 40g.

Shark-fin soup is available at many of Auckland's Chinese restaurants despite a determined environmental campaign to ban the collection of fins.

Former Telecom chief executive Theresa Gattung says a new gourmet food start-up she's helping bankroll has solid prospects as New Zealand has become "a nation of foodies".

Imagine opening your fridge, discovering you're out of milk but knowing an email has been sent to your local store ordering a fresh bottle.

Here are a few of Shelley Bridgeman's favourite gripes, come and share your own.

Boutique beer maker Moa is hoping to cash in on a growing craft beer market in Canada.

Despite being widely slammed for her first attempt at writing, Pippa Middleton will give it another go, this time in a monthly food column.

Ikea has been drawn into Europe's widening food labelling scandal as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labelled as beef and pork.

Imagine the following scenario. You go into your local sandwich shop for lunch and order a roast beef on rye with a dash of mustard.

Food prices are not becoming more expensive as the increase in cost tracks the rate of inflation, an economist says.

Key intermediaries involved in the trade of horsemeat appear to have used a similar secretive network of companies to convicted arms trafficker Viktor Bout.

A doctor battling the country's obesity epidemic says the "tragically" high fruit and vegetable prices need to be forced down, and junk food prices need to hit consumers in the pocket.

Coca-Cola is recalling five of its popular drinks because there might be glass fragments in the bottles.

A caffeine overload brought on by drinking up to 10 litres of Coca-Cola a day was a contributing factor in a woman's death, a coroner has ruled.

Coca-Cola says there is not enough evidence to link the death of an Invercargill woman with her excessive Coke drinking, despite a coroner's report that found otherwise.