From tomatoes to avocados and coffee, here are nine foods you should never keep in the fridge.

A 27-year-old Englishman who made a cocktail with just three ingredients has been named New Zealand's Bartender of the Year.

COMMENT: The pursuit of happiness is a modern phenomenon that, you could argue, may not serve to make us happier at all.

They're not just smart and famous, they can cook, too. Russell Blackstock talks to well-known Kiwis whose family recipes feature in a charity cookbook.

Kiwi athletes will tuck into an international smorgasbord of gold medal-winning meals as they chase Olympic glory in Rio.

COMMENT: Bread mix would suit a beginner but you could use your loaf and make one from scratch.

A meat-free meal lacks light and shade.

From Otago and California, there's something for all courses.

Yoga-centre-with-attached-cafe is a weirdly hot category in the Auckland brunch scene right now.

These foods may be getting in the way of achieving a flat stomach, and it's not just fizzy drink and junk food.

A tech-food start up has won competition Start Tel Aviv for its meat-free food alternatives.

Single-serve Viennetta on a stick is something we could enthusiastically get behind - and it better be happening.

New Zealand brand The Collective has been caught up in a major yoghurt recall in the UK.

COMMENT: The sisters' honesty and openness helps set Kitchen Diplomacy apart from the countless other travel and cooking shows on television.

As thousands of perfectly healthy people ditch gluten in the hope it might help them to lose weight, it seems there are even more for whom gluten really could be a problem, yet who are still tucking in to bread and biscuits completely unaware of the effect this could be having on their health. Source: asapSCIENCE

Top wine judge Jim Harre says this vintage have been particularly good, especially as the harvest has been large, which normally means a drop in quality.

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Featuring hotcakes and McMuffins on the fabric's print, is this the perfect outfit to eat all-day breakfast in?

Rice is so versatile in both savoury and sweet dishes.

This year's pie awards were dominated by entries from the North Island, leaving some questioning why the mainland didn't have a bigger slice of the action.

Meals arrived and, like a reflex, we all reached for our phones to take snaps.

We were really excited to kick off our adventures in South Korea, a country we have always felt a special connection to because we grew up competing in Tae Kwan Do. (

As their new TV show launches tonight Karena and Kasey Bird tell how careers as an auditor and accountant went off the rails in the best way possible.

Don't wait for the moon to hit-a your eye with a big-a pizza pie. Stop. Sip. And feel the amore immediately ...

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The famous chef shares his secret to disciplining his growing brood.

Efficiency and plenty of choice are on the menu at this Milford cafe.

After years of development, this company has done the impossible. This could be the most important food news in decades.

COMMENT: Once you start trying to make chips taste like bacon without putting bacon in, you are ingesting a range of additives you don't really need.

After years of development, this company has done the impossible. This could be the most important food news in decades.