Vicki and Tash sit down with Miel Meyer, GM of one of New Zealand's most award-winning cheesemakers, Meyer Cheese. It's a compelling story of a Dutch family moving to NZ and creating a multi-generational family business. They have become a Cheese Awards icon, renown through the Waikato and a family favourite at the supermarket. However thanks to free trade agreements, the EU is coming for the cheese. Or is it a chance for NZ to create our own compelling cheese identity?
The Sauce: Forbidden, Bitten, Obsessed ... with Apples
16/04/2026 | 31 mins.
From the Garden of Eden to the App Store, the apple has a lot to answer for. Vicki and Tash are tracing the fruit that tempted humanity, inspired scientists, and is yet another of New Zealand's world famous ingredients - in just 30min you'll know more about apples than a techbar specialist. Folklore, innovation, and more than a few crunchy opinions — this one's got layers. Consider yourself warned.
The Sauce with Rhi, on More Than Toast
09/04/2026 | 50 mins.
Rhi Baldock's More Than Toast is flying off the shelves in one of the year's hottest cookbooks so far. So Vicki and Tash invited her to the group chat to get saucy on giving cooks confidence in the kitchen. She's such an inspiring and practical teacher who can get anyone into the kitchen! Plus Tash is cracking open the good stuff with a 2023 Black Estate Pet Nat, and a brand new tonic offering from Veranda Drinks, from the Woodward St Distilling team. It's all fizzy fizz deliciousness!
The Sauce Gives You 6 Tips To Save $50 A Week
02/04/2026 | 41 mins.
Groceries eating your paycheck? Same. 🥦 Vicki and Tash put their collective kitchen skills together and did the maths — and if you just do these six things, you could save $50 a week on your food bill. Actual, practical, works-in-a-real-kitchen tips that don't require you to buy any new equipment or change anything drastic. Share it with all your friends. #thesaucenz #nzfood #grocerytips #savemoney #mealplanning #nzpodcast #foodtips #kitchenhacks #nzfoodie #budgetcooking
The Sauce with Erin Clarkson
26/03/2026 | 51 mins.
Vicki and Tash chew the cookies on the state of food criticism in New Zealand from giving feedback in a restaurant or dealing with a bad review. Of course we went to the source of all things sass when it comes to dealing with online bullies, talking with Erin Clarkson AKA @cloudykitchen who has perfected the art of dealing with criticism.
Join Tash McGill and Vicki Ravlich-Horan for spicy and sometimes sweet conversations around the kitchen table about all things food and beverage in Aotearoa New Zealand. Interviews, hot takes, food trends and irresistable libations from Vicki Ravlich-Horan, editor-in-chief of Nourish Magazine and Tash McGill of More Good Drinks. Together they run The Feed, the freshest bites on New Zealand food and beverage stories.
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