Veganism is now a global obsession with some heavyweight backers. Carroll Du Chateau looks at how a diet free of cheese, meat, fish and eggs went from hippie to hip.

The menu is a short, sweet list of just three “morning glories” — bacon and egg doonas, toasted muesli and fresh, warm beignets. Plus the perfectly brewed Havana Coffee Co beans.

Mussolini hated pasta and Hitler, famously a vegetarian, liked to eat baby pigeons. A new book tells us what tyrants liked for tea. John Walsh reports.

Linda Herrick delves into four new cookbooks that transport the palate around the globe.

One of the immutable laws of television is that there can never be too many cooking shows.

Canvas magazine interviewed a wide range of Kiwis this year, take a look back at some of them in these great reads from the past year.

One white, one red and one in-between wine from three producers who have managed to capture the flavours of summer perfectly.

Euro has gone healthy and it’s better than ever.

Naomi Campbell is as well known for her fiery temper as she is for her supermodel status. But Jo Piazza meets an older, wiser — and calmer — Campbell, who these days is focused on fighting Ebola rather than throwing phones at her assistants.

Cool kids take casual dressing to the next level.

If you write a sex scene, no one believes it’s fiction, writes Jon Stock.

From crack addiction to blockbusters, Tom Hardy’s path to stardom has been an unconventional one. He still thrives on dysfunction, he tells Matt Mueller.

Do you want to build a global phenomenon? That’s exactly what Disney did with its stratospherically successful animated film, Frozen. Kat Brown explains what went so right.

Neil Gaiman’s latest fantasy is an attempt to restore to fairy tales some of the danger the Grimm brothers removed. Gaby Wood reports.

With a new novel out, and a potential film finally on the horizon, Patricia Cornwell tells Judith Woods how Dr Kay Scarpetta was held hostage by Hollywood.

Some Luck is the first volume of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley’s trilogy set in the Iowa badlands. Boyd Tonkin reports.

"Short stories don't sell," is the current mantra of publishers everywhere, as a way of refusing to look at proffered manuscripts in case they love them and are sorely tempted.

Looking for celebratory sparkling wine for Christmas? John Hawkesby recommends six of the best mid-range Kiwi offerings.

Cool kids know what’s up for summer.

On the back of particularly bad music review, by Simon Sweetman, James Griffin asks the question: why do some people hate the ukulele so much?

Bette Midler talks frankly to Bryony Gordon about sex, self-respect and survival.