Red velvet cake has been around for many years and in the old days it used to get its deep, red colour from beetroot juice.

I was alerted to these by my daughter, who had them at a friend's house and said they were "yum". I've got nothing against teenage girls snacking on chicken - protein is good.

I do love it when I'm shopping for something to include in this column and a reader offers to help me out.

Each week, Wendyl Nissen takes a packaged food item and decodes what the label tells you about its contents.

Meat lover Brendan Manning visits one of the country's best butcher to witness the process of breaking down the beast.

Dutch style cheeses have taken out the top awards at this year's New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards.

Food, these days, has become less about eating and more about ethics and environmental concerns, Shelley Bridgeman says.

Cream cheese is a great alternative to butter on toast, especially if you are teaming it with salmon or my latest food craze, sliced fresh strawberries.

The fight against sugar has begun, with high-profile scientists and doctors calling for governments and food industries to cut the sugar content of food and drinks by up to 30%.

It is an "edgy, almost forbidden" ingredient that could make the bravest of cooks turn the colour of the traditional chef's uniform.

I bought this thinking it was a traditional Christmas pudding full of fruit and only discovered when I got it home that it was a chocolate pudding.

It is dearly loved by TV duo Wallace and Gromit and famous the world over, and now Wensleydale cheese has been awarded official protection by the European Union.

This Christmas we want to love food and hate waste. Check out our favourite leftover recipes and share your own idea.

Summer is here and so, too, is the sudden need for children to have frozen treats stacked in the freezer.

McDonald's says it will be open and transparent with anyone wanting to know its kitchen secrets with a new initiative Our Food, Your Questions, which launches today.

The real-life appearance of fast food doesn't have to match up with how it looks in the ads, the advertising watchdog has ruled.

Botulism scare avoidable if responsibility passed swiftly to top management: review chairman.

That the scare turned out to be the result of a false positive test does not mitigate the need for Fonterra to up its game, writes Fran O'Sullivan.