When outbreak was linked to a bad batch of lettuce, one Auckland farm was singled out. The owners say they’re fed up with taking the blame for a much wider problem.

The newly appointed Food Safety Minister is refusing to comment on a painful food poisoning epidemic that has swept the country, as the stomach bug's source remains unknown.

Kiwis are very keen on crackers. Everyone likes a quick snack of crackers and cheese, and it should be a healthy snack.

Hopes of a more stable world dairy market were dashed yesterday when GlobalDairyTrade auction prices resumed their downward slide.

Cured meats such as biltong and jerky are becoming increasingly popular because they give you a low-calorie meal of protein which is low in fat and carbohydrate free.

Everyone wants to eat coconut at the moment. I haven't reviewed coconut water because it's basically coconut and water, so not much to say there.

I am a big fan of any food producer that attempts to replace sugar with a natural alternative.

Life & Style Editor Nicky Park serves up the latest in food and booze news around New Zealand. Get your serve.

New Zealand snack food maker Griffin's Foods has been sold to one of Asia's biggest food companies for $700 million.

Everyone knows about carbs these days. People go carb-free in an effort to lose weight, and athletes carb-load before a big event.

Bircher muesli was invented in 1900 by the Swiss physician Maximilian Bircher-Benner for patients in his hospital where a diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables was an essential part of therapy.

Wendyl Nissen writes: There's a reason brightly coloured sweets are placed right next to you at the checkout - they're called impulse buys and are designed to make you think "why not?".

I bring raw chicken into the house about twice a year, writes Shelley Bridgeman. And when I do, my kitchen goes into virtual lockdown.

This dip was mentioned to me by a friend who had bought it thinking it was vegetarian.

Andrew and Natalie Vivian like to joke that their chilled ready meal business, Tasty Pot, is their fourth child.

Ponsonby’s Golden Dawn bar has been voted the city’s best in the latest hospitality awards.

Selling some foods without "best before" labels could save millions of dollars and reduce the huge amount of food thrown away each year.

EU is to scrap "best-before" dates on long life food packaging as a measure to stop millions of tons of edible produce being thrown away every year.

The shellfish known as black gold in New Zealand faces a whitewash to make it look more like the rest of the world's stock.

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.