Descendants of Mahatma Gandhi have criticised an American brewery that put the image of India's teetotal independence campaigner on tins of beer.

A staple of the urban Kiwi diet is to be unleashed on the US: Starbucks will next week introduce the mighty flat white to Americans.

Consumers have been stopped in their tracks after discovering nasty surprises such as sticking plasters, metal and pieces of glass in their food.

Turning carparks into eateries where diners sit on plastic stools and share their table with random strangers may not sound like a recipe for success.

It's been a big year - whole foods are huge, raw is popular, and coconut is everywhere. Here's a few predictions for the year ahead.

Dunedin-based Silver Fern Farms will be looking to raise around $100 million in new equity next year to repay debt, upgrade plant, and to accelerate its "value added" product strategy.

Food poisoning, rates issues, flooding and Dirty Politics have been listed as some of the biggest PR challenges of the past year.

If you've decided you'd really like to relax this year and let someone else do the cooking and cleaning, here are some great options for Christmas Day in Auckland.

Jiro Ono fears for the future of his country's traditional food

Unionised food workers have gone on strike today at Auckland City Hospital in protest against a contracting-out decision they say will cost jobs and be bad for patients.

She counts Lorde as a client and has done her part to make the quintessential Kiwi summer drink fashionable again.

One white, one red and one in-between wine from three producers who have managed to capture the flavours of summer perfectly.

Burgers, coffee, meat and butter - Delaney Mes takes a look back at the biggest food trends of 2014.

Authorities in New Zealand have issued a warning about unpasteurised milk after the death of an Australian child.

Neither Fonterra nor the Ministry for Primary Industries emerged unscathed in the final report on the botulism scare that rocked the New Zealand dairy industry last year.

Fonterra's workplace culture showed an entrenched 'silo' mentality that robbed it of vital cohesion, a govt report into a botched botulism scare has found.

Celebrity chefs and restaurateurs have banded together to ask diners to help feed needy Kiwis this Christmas.

Looking for celebratory sparkling wine for Christmas? John Hawkesby recommends six of the best mid-range Kiwi offerings.

New evidence suggests our ancestors acquired a taste for the substance nearly 10 million years before.

Today's twelve questions go to: Nick Honeyman, 32, is an executive chef at Sofitel Auckland and has run some of Auckland’s best restaurants.

A group of New Zealand and Australian mothers of children with cancer are using an alternative treatment to stave off the disease.

Kiwis will tuck into millions of litres of ice cream over the silly season - but could you manage a 10-scoop monster?

The group of kiwifruit growers who allege the Government agency Biosecurity NZ was negligent in allowing the disease Psa to be introduced into New Zealand lodged their claim in the High Court in Wellington today.

As the festive season approaches, it's time to once again highlight some of the worrying issues that you might face when venturing out to eat in our fine city.

Shaun Cloustan says the human race isn't getting any smaller, so everybody has to think about the way they do things.

The China Southern Airlines partnership with chef and restaurateur Al Brown is aimed partly at getting more New Zealanders travelling on the airline, says its president and chief executive, Tan Wangeng.