Food

Instead of ending with dessert, I have decided to start with it. Just because I can. And also because of a quote in this first book that says “Life’s too short; eat dessert first”…

The restaurant was filled to overflowing with many of Soul’s patrons, as well as specially invited guests and media. Soul’s proprietor is the charming Judith Tabron, so very well-known in Auckland, and she wrote the book with Gareth Stewart…

Meredith’s won the Cuisine Restaurant of the Year, awarded tonight at a cocktail party at the Auckland Museum. Despite being the coldest day in Auckland in years, a large crowd showed up in their cocktail best to hear who took home the bacon…

We came, we saw, we ate in tiny bites. Here’s Thread’s pick of the top 5 best at the Auckland Food Show 2011…

Wednesday night saw the crème de la crème (as it were) of the food industry at the Hilton in Auckland to celebrate The Food Show’s Auckland opening. Here’s what they wore at cocktails for the national event for food and wine lovers everywhere…

I would love to blame it on a whole host of other things (this is beginning to seem like a bit of a pattern here) – but it was all me. I have come to realise just how much we do with food at the centre. We catch up for friends for dinner…

I have always tried hard with a daughter in the house not to say the ‘F’ word around her. I have always tried to mention her brain, her heart or her effort rather than something she cannot really help – how beautiful or thin she is…

I have to say this particular subject has not been the easiest to write about. I have long loved clothing, but a deep malaise is hanging over my wardrobe. I have also blamed my hair. The real issue is my weight…

An art installation told the stories of Nathan Haines and Dan Gosling at a creative collaboration at Starkwhite Gallery in KRoad where vintage years from their lives were matched to wines from Cloudy Bay made in those years…

Wine making is a field where some women are making a successful name for themselves in what traditionally may be seen as a man’s world. To celebrate these remarkable women, Taylor wines hosted the Women in Wine lunch at Longroom…