Food

It's almost Easter and with hot cross buns and endless chocolate eggs to choose from it's a hard time to consider healthy eating, and even harder to convince your kids to slow down on the sweets. So… Audio

Dr Stacy Sims is an expert in how gender dictates athletes' training, nutritional, recovery and hydration needs. Working on the premise that women are not small men the exercise physiologist… Audio

Lab-grown lobster, implantable trackers for cows and robotic harvesters are just some of the innovations discussed at an agricultural summit in Christchurch. The inaugural event focussed on the… Audio

Coffee snobs are not only telling people the way real coffee should be made, they're now refusing to make it any other way to cafe customers. A BBC piece looks at the new breed of high-end coffee… Audio

With Easter looming, Bets Gee from Magnolia Kitchen is along with recipes for hot cross buns and also an allergy-friendly version and flavoured marshmallows. Plus the story of her food journey thus… Audio, Gallery

Megan May of Little Bird Organics talks winter breakfast warmers, and shares her recipe for Smokey Baked Beans on toast Audio

The Spinoff's definitive ranking of all 122 chip flavours in New Zealand. Audio

Ten years after it was launched in two Auckland primary schools, the Garden To Table programme has spread to 174 schools across New Zealand. About 10,000 Kiwi kids now grow vegetables and fruit on… Audio

Mexican chef Andres Pimentel has a lunch-time hole in the wall cafe at Custom House Quay and a food stall at the Wellington Sunday Waterfront market called Hot Like A Mexican. His specialities are… Audio

Researchers from the University of Otago have interviewed thirty-three 11 to 13 year-olds about junk food advertising. The upshot is - the children want it banned.The kids in the study say they bought… Audio

Different cheese wheels were exposed to different types of music. They found that the cheese exposed to music had a milder flavor compared to the non-musical cheese. Audio

Sammy Akuthota from Satya Chai Lounge on K Road shares a recipe for Channa (chickpea) Chaat. Audio

A piece on Stuff about the cultural difference between the US and NZ when it comes to pies. We ask Caroline Bruner, who works in New Zealand but is from the USA, whether she's converted to the mince… Audio

"The quinces and the tamarillos are looking at me from the tree right at the minute," says Anna Valentine from Northland's Veggie Tree Cook School. She shares with us two plant-based autumn recipes –… Audio