Kitchen Stories

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• Tongan food with Freddy Tu'akalau

  29 Dec 2018

  

  If you live in Auckland and like eating Pasifika food chances are you've already eaten at the popular Eight Roses cafe and buffet in Otahūhū.​ Owner and chef Freddy Tu'akalau shares with us his… Audio

• Kitchen Stories: Timena Apa cooks Samoan food

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  13 Jan 2019

  

  Timena Apa is a director and editor, including for Coconet TV, New Zealand's largest hub for Pacific content. She loves cooking Samoan food, and brings recipes for Sapasui (Chop Suey), Oka (Raw fish… Audio

• Kitchen Stories: Hanifa and Nilufar cook Uzbek food

  6 Jan 2019

  

  Nilufar Allayarova and her daughter Hanifa Kodirova came to New Zealand from Uzbekistan when Hanifa was four (now she's 18 and about to head off to university). They explain how Uzbeks prepare and… Audio

• Kitchen Stories: Ishna Iftikar cooks Sri Lankan food

  30 Dec 2018

  

  Ishna Iftikar's family moved from Sri Lanka to Canada when she was young, and she later came to New Zealand to study. She shares Sri Lankan Muslim cuisine, including an eggplant stirfry, Kaliya; a… Audio

• Laura Vincent's easy vegan treats

  5 Jan 2019

  

  Wellington food writer Laura Vincent brings us recipes for toasted sunflower seed and garlic dip, black salted caramel ripple ice cream, and almond butter toffee. Audio

• Three certified low-FODMAP recipes from Elle Joy

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  12 Jan 2019

  

  Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects one in seven people. Melbourne teacher Elle Joy was diagnosed in 2013 and found, like many others with the condition, that a diet low in FODMAPs – short-chain… Audio