Here’s a list of all the winners in the Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards for 2009. I’ve only included the meat winners – really, we’re not interested in the vegetarian versions.

SUPREME WINNER
Gourmet …

The New York Times reports that butchery is on the rise. Many young people are begging their way into an apprenticeship with a boutique butcher shop to learn the art of killing and processing meat. …

Here’s a great and simple way to cook pork. I used a roll of pork which is relatively cheap and can be bought from any good supermarket or food store.
Ingredients:
1 kg rolled pork roast
1/3 …

I’m in Sydney with the family and we’ve been surprised by how much eating here costs. It may be more to do with the fact that two seven and a half year old boys now …

Bakels have been running the Supreme Pie Award or 13 years and the standard continues to rise.
In 2008 the unheard of actually happened and a vegetarian pie took top honours. We’re not going to say …

Personally, I hate the movies this wee pisstake is mimicking, but this is fantastic. And tell me – how come the cow looks soooo much like Laurence Fishburne? It’s uncanny! Take a look here

Can you believe we consume 60 million pies each year. Apparently it’s a $120 million dollar business.
But someone out there is getting more than their fair share of pastry and congealed meat. That’s 15 pies …

When I started work as a photographers assistant it was back in the days when the big lunch still existed. We would imbibe on a regular basis at The Taj – a then swanky eatery …

With the atmosphere, menu, wine list and service all hard to fault, the Cuisine judges were unanimous in their praise for the central-city Wellington restaurant Logan Brown.
A 1920s banking chamber – ringed by columns like …

There is nothing quite so satisfying as a good sausage. And it doesn’t need to be a fancy polish sausage or a salami. Just your bog-standard pork or beef sausage will make my mouth water.
Having …