Christmas

This year, as well as Christmas cake, Joan Bishop is making Panpepato, a spicy cake chock-full of fruit and nuts plus the surprising addition of black pepper.

Swapping can be better than shopping for Christmas toys, dozens of Dunedin families discovered on Saturday.

Get out the sundresses and shorts for Christmas Day but keep the umbrella and cardi handy.

From the ODT files: German Christmas stollen with marzipan, a recipe from chef Daniel Pfyl.

Janet Mitchell shows us how to make Christmas trifle.

More than 150 eager children from Otago and Southland send Santa a letter between Boxing and Labour Day but Santa waits until November to reply.

Mike Colombo shows how to make the popular Italian dessert tiramisu.

It is not yet spring, but preparations are already under way for the sixth annual Shotover Jet Christmas Spectacular - and organisers are calling for anyone interested in performing to sign up.

Turkey is traditional Christmas fare but cooking one can be daunting. This recipe from the ODT archives will show you how. .

Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle in Finland is surely one of the greatest destinations in the world for lovers of all things Christmassy, as AAP travel writer Leah McLennan discovered.

Christmas with its inextricable mixture of the sacred and the secular has a universal and eternal appeal, writes Garth George.

Leyland Leopard 194 will cruise the streets of Dunedin once again this Christmas.