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Like all good staples pasta is a simple delicious dish to cook and eat. But there is pasta and then there is pasta and then there are Italians. Speak to any enthusiastic Italian (i.e. any) and they will soon be telling you all of the important little ways of how pasta absolutely must be cooked.

Summer is a time for celebrations. Fruit is ripe, BBQ’s are hot and drinks are cool. While there may be a load of exciting produce and food on offer, nothing quite piques our interest and stimulates our taste buds more that one particular food in summer… So summer is well and truly here – at

With stock being a pricey commodity from the supermarkets there really is no excuse not to make your own at home. It will cost next to nothing, be minimal effort and can be frozen for a later convenience. Making homemade stock should be every cooks stock in trade… OK so while I am banging on

What do coffee and Jacques Cousteau have in common? The obvious answer may be conservation, but it is actually a boat. Or to be precise an old Jacques Cousteau ship that is now a high seas coffee roastery and Golden Bay cafe  serving up some of the finest coffee this side of the (Abel) Tasman.

It is strange that talk of dinner etiquette can so often end in arguments – surely a breach of any etiquette guideline. But nothing divides people more than the question of how to use your fork… I found myself outnumbered, knife in hand and back to the wall. If the cause is right then I

Is the craze for eating ready-made food the reason for our bad health? And does the so-called convenience of such food pay off? So there I was, queuing in the local supermarket waiting to buy my shopping when my eyes started roaming over what the lady in front of me was buying. It was a

When you consider how difficult it is to get a reduction just right, it is understandable that chefs are wont to throw pots and pans across the room and then go home and hit the bottle. NOM NOM boils the many secrets of a good reduction down to a few easy to follow rules. Like

Spring is here but before you go looking for your sunscreen, hat and bottle of Pimms remember to make the most of the season’s first asparagus harvest. Because when it comes to asparagus, nothing compares… [dropcap]H[/dropcap]eart by heart, step by step, left right left, we’re all gobbled down, like asparagus soldiers…Ok so I may be