Cooking

The Akaroa Cooking School: Corporate Refugees, Ant and Lou Bentley gave up careers as investment bankers in London to return home in 2006 to set up The Akaroa Cooking School. which has been named by… Audio

Anne Preston on using a high tech kitchen to teach people to learn a recipe in a foreign tongue. Audio

Yotam Ottolenghi's path to the world of cooking and baking has been anything but straightforward. Having completed a masters degree in philosophy and literature whilst working on the news desk of an… Audio

Jeremy Dixon is the founder of Auckland's Revive Cafés, which sell healthy lunches and dinners - including salads and hot meals that are vegetarian and use mainly fresh, local produce. His fourth… Audio

Award winning food writer, Julie Biuso with real hamburgers and a Spicy Tomato Chutney to go with it. Audio

Wellington food blogger and writer, Laura Vincent with a halloumi, fried potato and raw fennel salad. Audio

Chef, conservationist and outdoorsman, Tony Smith, talks about the variety of food, game and produce he hunts and gathers to inspire what he cooks, and he'll run through a couple of recipes. His book… Audio

Deanna Yang didn't have a cooking or business background when she graduated from university and decided to enact her childhood dream of opening her own cookie shop. Auckland's Moustache Milk & Cookie… Audio

Fleur Sullivan of Fleurs Place in Moeraki with Mussel Fritters. Audio

Anne Else talks about her new book, The Colour of Food. It is a memoir, but running through it, the focus is on food and in particular meals that have meant a lot to her during different stages of her… Audio

Dan Pearson began his career as a teenager in the burger vans and factory kitchens of Northampton, England and worked his way up over the years ending up at the Michelin-starred Foliage at the… Audio

Jo Donnelly is the co-owner, with her husband Ian Stewart, of artisan honey cordial company Bees Blessing based out of Kau Whero farm in the Mangaroa Valley. She brings recipes for Spiced Syrup… Audio

Lauren Bramley is a student and amateur cook, whose blog Health Eating on a student budget shares her recipes, and instructions for making cheap healthy meals. Lauren will share a recipe for her Paleo… Audio

Sophie Gray has written several best selling cookbooks under her destitute gourmet brand. She is based in Auckland and is a busy working Mum who aims to feed her family nutritious food, while watching… Audio

Whangarei chef and caterer Shannon Hauraki has won Whangarei's Fritter Festival two years running and shares some of his recipes. Audio

Fiona Gower from Rural Women NZ is along with recipes for three preserves.

Recipes:
Red onion chutney
Mint jelly
Feijoa jelly

The recipes are from the book A Good Harvest - Recipes from the… Audio

Martinborough chef and restaurateur Jo Crabb divides her time between running her cooking school in Martinborough and spending time in France. She shares three French recipes: Tarte Au Roquefort… Audio

Aaron Brunet won Masterchef in 2013, and has just released his first cookbook Cook With Me. Audio

We make the French sweet treat Canelés de Bordeaux with Eric Hausser, the owner and head patissier at the French Can Can bakery. Audio

Jozef Youssef is a highly acclaimed restaurant and private dining chef. He has published the book, 'Molecular Gastronomy at Home: Taking Culinary Physics Out of the Lab and Into Your Kitchen', and… Audio