Food Traditions

Brunch Mediterranean-style with Yael Shochat from Auckland restaurant Ima. We'll run some Arab and Israeli recipes for Shakshuka, Borekas and Falafel. Yael Shochat arrived in New Zealand 17 years ago… Audio

Jesse Friedman is hosting 194 dinner parties, celebrating the national cuisine of each member state of the United Nations in alphabetical order. Audio

In Sydney in 2006, Lisa Goldberg was one of a group of Jewish women who began meeting every Monday morning. They cooked, ate, drank endless cups of tea and discussed the merits of different recipes… Audio

Amelia Nurse finds out about Romania's fascinating Christmas traditions and joins the newly arrived Floroiu family to learn how to cook something indulgently festive. Audio

In France, dinner on Christmas Eve is the most important meal of the season, and steeped in tradition. For Assyrians, a type of cookie called kleach is the feature of their Christmas cuisine. Amelia… Audio

We make traditional salami kobasica with Milan Malivuk of Little Wolf. Audio

Is there a New Zealand cuisine or have we been swept away into a miasma of 'Asian-Pacific fusion'? Food writers Helen Leach, Alexa Johnston and Ray McVinnie discuss with Lauraine Jacobs the state of… Audio

Cookbooks and Cultural Identity in the 20th Century. In this final Macmillan Brown lecture for 2008, Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago exposes the way in which cultural identity can be… Audio

Cookery in the Colonial Era. Contact with the immigrants brought new types of kai and ways of cooking to Maori, explored by Prof Helen Leach of the University of Otago in the second of her 2008… Audio

Maori Cookery Before Cook. What impact did migration from a tropical homeland have on Maori cookery? They experienced drastic changes in their traditional foods, yet the rules that were part of their… Audio