Food

Cooking show host on Maori TV whose new book, Kai Ora, provides healthy recipes and details her experience with breast cancer. Audio

A hangi pit, used to cook moa more than 700 years ago is making headlines. Audio

Is there a New Zealand cuisine or have we been swept away into a miasma of 'Asian-Pacific fusion'? Food writers Helen Leach, Alexa Johnston and Ray McVinnie discuss with Lauraine Jacobs the state of… Audio

Alyson Gofton has a book called Potato Favourites. David went out to dig up some potatoes with her and to talk spuds. Audio

A vegetarian cook for over 24 years who runs classical and modern vegetarian cookery workshops from her home in Lower Hutt. Audio

Culinary anthropologist talking about her new book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand's Culinary History. Audio

Alison Holst talks up the humble potato and her new book "Popular Potatoes - 100 Easy and delicious Recipes". Audio

A history of food swindles - pink margarine, horse liver coffee and rat meat. Audio

Visit an Italian guesthouse that caters for people with coeliac disease - an autoimmune condition that is triggered by Gluten. Audio

Cookbooks and Cultural Identity in the 20th Century. In this final Macmillan Brown lecture for 2008, Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago exposes the way in which cultural identity can be… Audio

Cookery in the Colonial Era. Contact with the immigrants brought new types of kai and ways of cooking to Maori, explored by Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago in the second of her 2008… Audio

Maori Cookery Before Cook. What impact did migration from a tropical homeland have on Maori cookery? They experienced drastic changes in their traditional foods, yet the rules that were part of their… Audio

Simon Morton visits award-winning baker Ross Simpson at his Strathmore Bakery to find out what goes in a hot cross bun. Audio

Insight looks at New Zealand efforts to police illegal fishing in the Pacific. Audio