Olive Oil
New Zealand olive oil producers also feeling the climate pinch
New Zealand produced close to 120,000 litres of olive oil in 2022. In 2023, that fell to 76,000. Audio
Why is olive oil so expensive?
Matteo D'Elia says it's been tough for restaurants in the Italian town of Badalucco to keep up with the rising price of the region's most treasured delicacy. Audio
A doctor, an island and oil: The olive journey of Peter Crelinsten
Twenty-five years ago on a Mediterranean island a retired doctor learnt about olives. Now he's brought that knowledge, and the pursuit of their health benefits, to Kerikeri at Puketi Olive Farm. Audio
Shock, horror! Not all vegetables are best eaten raw
Did you know there are a number of vegetables that are healthier for you when cooked? (Spoiler alert: carrots are on the list.) Fellow in the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Otago… Audio
21 Years making Olive Oil - 'It's New Zealand in a cup'
Country Life joins Lot 8's twenty first olive harvest and talks to the olive oil brand's owners Nalini and Colin Baruch who are among the Wairarapa's pioneering olive oil producers. Video, Audio
Top cooking tips with Vanessa Baxter: Butter
The Fearless Kitchen's Vanessa Baxter joins the show to share some top tips and offer up a traditional bread and butter pudding recipe. Audio
3MM: Vanessa Baxter on essential items for your larder
3 Minutes Max, New Zealand commentators with succinct opinions. Vanessa Baxter from The Fearless Kitchen shares some thoughts on essential items for your larder to help through social distancing or… Audio
Peta Mathias in the Musical Chair
Peta Mathias' new book Eat Your Heart Out is an exploration of love stories from around the world, intertwined with recipes that suit romantic encounters. Although, she maintains that anything cooked… Audio
The Walshaw's 'oil change'
Sometimes you have to feel the fear and do it anyway, says David Walshaw, who left a 25-year finance career to become an olive grower. He and his wife Helen turned 20 acres of bare paddocks into a… Audio
The scent of lavender
Jason and Trisha Delamore purchased Lavender Hill, a three hectare property 30 minutes north west of Auckland city, two years ago. It is a commercial enterprise with lavender plants, a lavender still… Audio, Gallery
Which is the best olive oil?
Consumer NZ taste-tested 17 extra virgin olive oils from New Zealand, Australia and Europe – and 2 Australian brands have come out on top. Audio
Just a Drop
A summer with lower sunshine hours, combining with a late harvest when birds damage fruit, is making for very poor olive oil volumes this year. Some growers are over 50% down. Olive oil producers from… Audio
Bio Dynamic Bert
Bert van Heuckelum has been told he could plant a broomstick and it would grow. The green-fingered Katikati orchardist left Holland in 1983. His dream was to live self-sufficiently in New Zealand. Audio
Global Neighbours - France and Italy
Italian-born Euronews journalist Eri Garuti now works from the east of France and reports on both European nations, Italy pop. 59,685,227 (est. 2012) and France pop. 66,616,416 (est. 2014). The… Audio
Food - Olive Oil producer Jared Gulian
American city dweller Jared Gulian found himself living in rural Wairarapa, where he started making olive oil. He shares his recipe for gluten-free focaccia, made with his own Moon Over Martinborough… Audio
The Good Oil - Wairarapa's Olive Harvest
Martinborough is celebrating its second olive festival this weekend (27-29 June). It marks the culmination of the annual olive harvest in the Wairarapa region, which boasts the biggest concentration… Audio
Extra Virginity - Tom Mueller
Tom Mueller, the author of 'Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil'. Audio