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Food behaviours to stress (without stressing out)
My children are 12, 10 and 3. My chance to impart our family values, educate them and feed them well is by no means complete.

Free food for the beautiful
A Korean eatery in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou says the 50 most handsome people to arrive at its gates each day will be spared paying their bills.

Photos: Amazing fruit & veg art
It started with a picture posted on Instagram of her weekly groceries last year, but now Amber Locke is being commissioned to create her 'veg art' by the likes of Jamie Oliver and Android.

Want brekkie? Sign this waiver
Contestants are given an hour to attempt the challenge, signing a waiver before starting. Rules include no sharing, must be 18 or over and you must stop if you are sick.

Creme Egg changes affect NZ
If you think your Cadbury Creme Egg tastes a little different this year that might be because the chocolate shell recipe has changed.

Eggs-treme anger at changes
"It's no longer Dairy Milk. It's similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk."

5 things to know about coffee
A recent study got us thinking: What other crazy things do we know about coffee thanks to science? Answer: a lot

Photos: Incredible fruit & vege art
Amber Locke creates intricate designs by photographing fruit and vegetables arranged on a sheet, which she posts both on her Instagram and her website.

Delaney Mes: Stretch out that summer feeling
Some of summer’s best weather happens after the Christmas and New Year madness dies down and when we’re all back at work.

Wine: Summer essentials
Looking for summer bubbles, a lovely uncomplicated white that goes with anything or something tiny, transportable and functional? Here they are…

Bar review: Non Solo Pizza, Parnell
First drinks: Were suitably Italian - one Aperol Spritz and a Peroni, the only beer served on tap. There was a bit of confusion around

Review: Orbit, Auckland CBD
The Sky Tower’s revolving restaurant Orbit will elevate your special occasion.

Nigella Lawson: 'I'm a survivor'
Nigella Lawson on childhood, family and why she’s the queen of onion soup.

The rise of the vegans
Veganism is now a global obsession with some heavyweight backers. Carroll Du Chateau looks at how a diet free of cheese, meat, fish and eggs went from hippie to hip.

Brunch: Depot Eatery, Auckland CBD
The menu is a short, sweet list of just three “morning glories” — bacon and egg doonas, toasted muesli and fresh, warm beignets. Plus the perfectly brewed Havana Coffee Co beans.

Books: Food journeys
Linda Herrick delves into four new cookbooks that transport the palate around the globe.

Wendyl Wants To Know: Take close look at packaging
While shopping for supplies for our New Year's Eve party, I found this very appetising "man sized" offering.

Sizzling in wine country
Drive the winding road from Havelock North to the windblown crest of Te Mata Peak then study the panorama from west to east.

Summer Herald: First, the talking pig ... then some foul fruit
When I arranged to eat miscellaneous offal at work on a Friday afternoon, it seemed like as good a time as any.

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

Kai cooked in thermal wonderland
Reporter Jamie Morton and photographer and videographer Alan Gibson discover the naturally-steamed delights of Rotorua’s Whakarewarewa Valley.

Jem Beedoo: No point frying over filched chips
The desirability of foods is determined by the readiness that your co-diners display in snatching what is yours.

Kai cooked in thermal wonderland
What does our food say about us as Kiwis? In part two of a five-day series, reporter Jamie Morton and photographer Alan Gibson try to find out.

Paltrow New Year detox plan
For most people the prospect of a New Year health drive means little more than cutting back on the booze after a few too many festive sherries.

NZ classic introduced to US
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.