It might be grown on old opium farms but $60-a-cup Black Ivory is hardly the most unexpected coffee discovery in the shadow of Asia's golden triangle.

A whiff of lollies in the breeze - with a trace of gravy - is the sweet smell of success for a South Auckland factory providing steady jobs and export earnings.

Jeanette Lewis is sipping a latte and looking out over a damp market square. She checks the buses as they pass down the high street.

A battle between Sanitarium and a Christchurch man who imported 2000 jars of UK Marmite into New Zealand will head to the High Court early next year.

Misleading nutrition and health claims about food will be stopped under new regulations on labelling.

A Waiheke Island grove has produced an olive oil that's been named among the top 20 in the world.

The owner of an Auckland bakery has been sentenced for breaching standards by having a "severe cockroach infestation" in her premises.

Food prices fell 0.8 per cent last month, with vegetables leading the charge. Food prices have now fallen 0.6 per cent over the past year.

Now we all know he's famous for adventuring around the world and eating bugs but guess what?

Kiwifruit growers are hoping the vine-killing disease Psa will soon be declared an "adverse event".

Fast food chain and franchisor BurgerFuel Worldwide has opened its largest store ever, in the capital city of Saudi Arabia.

Superstar chef Heston Blumenthal has pulled out of a gourmet food festival in Western Australia after two of his chefs died in a Hong Kong car crash.

How often have you been told that a restaurant's licence bans it from allowing BYO? Whoever told you that is either ignorant or fibbing.

The Cafe of the Year winners treat their customers like their family.

A French winemaking giant has lost its case against a Hawkes Bay estate after it accused the company of ripping off the name of one of its wines.