It’s time for spicy soup, slow-cooked chicken and hot chocolate sauce, write Kasey and Karena Bird.

Loop, with its white walls, tables and chairs plus a rather magnificent curved bar, is a refreshing change in Kingsland.

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.

A month ago, a group of overweight cousins decided they needed to make a change in their lives - and they have.

Not even the winter cold can take the heat out of the inner city’s temperature, as Paul Lewis discovers during a three-venue dinner around watching a luncheon play.

Not all beer drinkers want to grab a cold one. Molson Coors Brewing discovered this in China where drinking cold liquids is widely seen as undesirable.

When I asked Kathy Paterson if she could give us a few recipes for oven bakes her response was "no problem, that's how I eat".

Think beyond burgers and fries and embrace the taste of New York, writes Delaney Mes.

Never having been to Hanoi, I might be mistaken. But I suspect the similarities between eating at a street food stall in Vietnam and dining in a Grey Lynn cafe on a cold Auckland winter’s Sunday night are not striking.

The recipe for Marmite could be rejigged to make it healthier in response to new Government plans to introduce nutrition rankings for all packaged food.

Eating one of the less popular vegetables can help asthmatics breathe easier, researchers have discovered.

Shoppers will soon know which foods are healthiest as the Government introduces a system to rate nutritional value.

Dietary restrictions can be difficult to keep to in far-flung corners of the world, writes Alex Robertson.

Being sick sucks. Usually it comes when you're at your busiest, you feel unable to stop life for anything, let alone a snotty nose.

Muslims in New Zealand will this year be fasting just 11 hours during Ramadan while their counterparts in the Northern Hemisphere will be going without food for over 20 hours.

The Tattersfields spent less on one meal for their whole family than the price of one McDonald's Happy Meal by following a plan that promises to feed four people for five days for less than $50.

A recent spate of counterfeit wine busts has shone a spotlight on how pervasive the problem of wine forgery might be.

Rachel Grunwell enjoys a weekend escape in Marlborough.

Billionaire businessman Graeme Hart is believed to be looking for an executive chef for his $22 million mansion in Auckland's Glendowie.