And wherever fine wine is made, great food is cooked, as I discovered during a culinary weekend at the Hotel d'Urville, in the small South Island town of Blenheim.
While in Venice during her culinary tour of Italy, David met the artist Renato Guttuso.
The macaroni cheese I made during Sunday's culinary marathon was an unadulterated success, if I do say so myself.
Dehillerin has been selling its copper pots and pans since 1820, when it was founded during Paris's culinary revolution.
Watch as chef John Quilter, aka YouTube's The Food Busker, meets both men during his six-week culinary odyssey from east Canada to west.
It describes how the nation went from a local to a national culinary economy during the war and how the North used food to its advantage - but the South did not.
He was nine years out of culinary school, during which time he had apprenticed at one of Copenhagen's best restaurants, endured a long stage in the unhappy kitchen of a testy three-star Montpelier chef, and made molecular magic in Catalonia with Ferran Adrià.
An obvious statement of purpose, perhaps, but mired as we are in a period of culinary confusion during which froths and melanges often muddy the tastes and blur the components, Wakuda's straightforward preparations focus on only one and then work imaginatively to enhance it.
