Food

New Zealand has a lot to offer tourists - beautiful scenery, adventure sports, wineries...but what about our food? Lauraine Jacobs investigates. Audio

A new 35-square metre shipping container has been transformed into a completely off-the-grid commercial kitchen, aimed at feeding hungry schoolchildren, and teaching people how to grow and cook… Video, Audio

Kira Ghidoni, the new head chef at The Grove restaurant, tells us about the new role and shares her spring recipe - Mushrooms with poached egg and asparagus. Audio

An Auckland strawberry grower has paid more $20,000 to install metal detectors at his farm after needle-ridden strawberries were found in New Zealand. Katie Scotcher and camera man Dan Cook look at… Video, Audio

All Australian strawberries imported here will be rigorously checked for signs of sabotage after needles were found in a punnet sold in an Auckland supermarket yesterday. Audio

Lynn talks with Danny and Yaron Eliahu, whose family business has been supplying New Zealanders with fresh pita bread for 30 years. When the family emigrated to New Zealand from Israel in the 1988… Audio

Megan May of Little Bird Organics joins us in studio to talk chocolate, and share her recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Chunk Energy Cookies. Audio

MPI's director of food regulation Paul Dansted is calling on consumers to report their concerns about food tampering here after strawberries, bananas, and apples have fallen victim to industrial… Video, Audio

Australians are having to throw out or chop up their strawberries after needles were found in the fruit, across all six states. Professor Nigel Grigg discusses how damaging this tampering could be. Audio

Metal has been found in strawberries across Australia, prompting growers to urge consumers to keep buying the fruit but cut them up before eating. Queensland Strawberry Growers Association vice… Video, Audio

Aroha is the key to making award winning cheese, says Zev Kaka-Holtz from Whangarei boutique cheese company, Grinning Gecko. His kau piro cheese was recently recognised at an international cheese… Audio, Gallery

Announcing our inaugural Critter of the Week Bake-Off! A chance to put your baking skills to work to create cakes in the shapes of some of our fantastic and unusual endangered critters Video

Fresh dates are good for us and syrup made from them is a great alternative to refined sugar, says Julie Biuso. She shares a recipe for eggplant and date salad. Audio

A deli worker in the US is being charged after chomping through nearly $13,000 of ham over eight years. And. A study in Nature Sustainability has demonstrated that vegetarian or pescatarian diets can… Audio

The toddler years are a labour-intensive phase of parenting – as your child learns about food, they're feeling a lot, pushing back a lot and don't have a lot of impulse control, says Dr Julie Boshale… Audio

The owners of Ika Bowl in Auckland are looking at taking their traditional South Pacific take on the poké trend - a Hawaiian raw fish salad - overseas.  Audio

Jess from Jess' Underground Kitchen shares with us a tasty way to up your intake of greens – a very versatile (and vegan) green dressing. Audio

Fortune magazine reports that Restaurant Brands New Zealand is letting its licensing deal with Starbucks expire this year. The hugely successful chain has a hold in countries around the world, but… Audio