How to clean and maintain your outdoor grill

Kiwis hoping to roll out the barbecue as the weather warms are being advised to give their outdoor grill a thorough clean to avoid a “cooking disaster”. Consumer New Zealand’s James le Page told Breakfast that cleaning and maintaining the outdoor grill was “a very good way” to avoid starting fires or enduring bad-tasting barbecue. […]

Wairarapa baker on how to eat a custard square without making a mess

If you were to name 10 iconic New Zealand dishes off the top of your head, the custard square would almost certainly be among them. No bakery in this country worth its salt would dare omit this messy pastry from the array of sumptuous offerings we’ve come to expect from such an institution. But like […]

How to build a sandwich so it won’t get soggy, according to a chef

Nobody wants to hear your sog story. Eating a sandwich? Amazing. Eating a soggy sandwich? Kind of the worst — and yet it happens so often. That’s because too many of us don’t know how to make a sandwich correctly — it’s all about the build, says former fine dining chef Trever Kunk of Boston, who spoke […]

How to avoid ‘Avocado hand’ — a common and serious injury

You’ll want to cut this part from the guacamole recipe. Cutting avocados accounts for about 1 in every 50 knife injuries in America, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Health Behavior. “It’s shocking how many ER department visits are related to avocado hand-cutting injuries,” Matthew E. Rossheim, the lead author […]

How to Spend Three Days in Sicily

The cultural tapestry of Sicily is a rich and varied one. Invasions by the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks, Romans, Moors, Normans, Spanish, and Italians left their mark, particularly in the island’s architecture and culinary traditions. The island is best explored through those understated haunts where locals convene, centuries-old buildings that lie well off the tourist track, […]