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Produce report April 15
Fresh this week: Sweet golden kiwifruit have recently joined the sharper green ones in your local supermarket — the 2019 harvest is set to be a bumper one....
Produce report April 8
Fresh this week: “Apple season is looking beautiful at New World as warm summer temperatures and cooler autumn evenings bring rich colour and full flavour to...
Niki Bezzant: What is the keto diet and is it actually harmful?
Sometimes there is quite a difference between the way nutrition research is reported and what the research actually shows.Coverage of a recent study about...
Magic with mushrooms
Once known as the ‘food of the gods’, wild mushrooms have been enjoyed around the world for thousands of years. However, not all of us wish to experiment...
Produce report April 1
Fresh this week: The days may be getting shorter but there’s plenty to celebrate for fruit lovers as the cooler months welcome a host of delicious new...
Produce report March 25
Fresh this week: All your Autumn favourites are looking good at New World this week with tomatoes, eggplant, courgettes, capsicums, pumpkin, buttercup,...
Three ways with buttercup pumpkin
As well as having an adorable name, buttercup pumpkins (also known as buttercup squash) have the kind of vegetable good looks that you’d expect to find in a...
Produce report March 18
Fresh this week: New season red kumara is plentiful and good buying this week, as are apples and pears. You can start looking for kiwifruit now too, with...
Annabel Langbein's ways to use figs
I still think of the summer of 1984 as the summer of figs. Blissfully fat black figs, their soft skins splitting with ripeness, scarlet floral centres...
Passionate for passionfruit
Passionfruit were first discovered around 1700 in the jungles of Brazil by a Jesuit priest. They were named the ‘Passion of Christ’ because the plant’s...