A new cookbook and a celebration of the farming sector. 

Kiwi Chef Nadia Lim has spent over five years designing her new cookbook, which she says is about paying tribute to the farmers, land, and sustainable food. 

‘Nadia’s Farm Kitchen’ is filled with seasonal recipes, as well as offering a glimpse into life on Royalburn Station with personal stories and anecdotes. 

She joined Mike Hosking to discuss the book and for a bit of a trip down memory lane, telling him that looking back, their journey on the farm is quite different to what they originally expected. 

“I would describe the whole journey, if I could sum it up, as starting from quite an idealistic place,” Lim told him. 

“You know, oh, we’re going to be on this farm and we’re going to diversify and we’re going to have a full farm to plate model, to being chipped away, chipped away at slowly over the years, to definitely becoming a whole lot more realistic.” 

“It’s really a game of you win some, you lose some.”  

However, despite some mixed results, Lim says they love living on Royalburn Station. 

“It might not be the best financial return, but I can tell you it is the best lifestyle return, and you can’t beat that.” 

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A new cookbook and a celebration of the farming sector.&nbsp;
Kiwi Chef Nadia Lim has spent over five years designing her new cookbook, which she says is about paying tribute to the farmers, land, and sustainable food.&nbsp;
‘Nadia’s Farm Kitchen’ is filled with seasonal recipes, as well as offering a glimpse into life on Royalburn Station with personal stories and anecdotes.&nbsp;
She joined Mike Hosking to discuss the book and for a bit of a trip down memory lane, telling him that looking back, their journey on the farm is quite different to what they originally expected.&nbsp;

“I would describe the whole journey, if I could sum it up, as starting from quite an idealistic place,” Lim told him.&nbsp;
“You know, oh, we’re going to be on this farm and we’re going to diversify and we’re going to have a full farm to plate model, to being chipped away, chipped away at slowly over the years, to definitely becoming a whole lot more realistic.”&nbsp;
“It’s really a game of you win some, you lose some.” &nbsp;
However, despite some mixed results, Lim says they love living on Royalburn Station.&nbsp;
“It might not be the best financial return, but I can tell you it is the best lifestyle return, and you can’t beat that.”&nbsp;
LISTEN ABOVE&nbsp;

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Nadia Lim: Kiwi Chef on her new cookbook 'Nadia's Farm Kitchen' and her farming journey

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Hasn’t working from home become funny? 

Seek have produced a thing called Money Matters, and they look at work-life balance. 

Actually, hasn’t that become a thing as well – work-life balance. I can't place it exactly, but it seems like a Covid thing. The world changed and so did we. 

Working hard is now so last year, or so last decade. We all long for work-life balance with a good sprinkling of mental health days. 

But working from home is a scam because according to Money Matters if you got a pay rise you would go back to the office quick as you like. 

So is it about work-life balance or is it about money? 

Everything is about money. We just like to pretend it isn't. You feel more virtuous if you pretend it isn't about money. 

But Money Matters spills the truth. Working from home is easier, we save on the commute, you claim you are more productive, blah blah blah. "Hey, how about 20% more?" Then you're out of there. 

We would work more hours for more money, we would take on an increased workload for more money, and we would commute further for more money. 

There isn't much we wouldn't do for more money. 

The work from home thing, by the way, is funny because before Covid there was virtually no such thing. The idea that you could invent a thing and then having invented it, because we were all locked down anyway, turn it into a permanent thing that could only be broken by a pay rise is the ultimate in farce. It's an insight into how quickly a habit can form if it suits you. 

Anyway, the only other thing that can make us blow up our precious work-life balance is more time off. 

But it still doesn’t beat money. 

It's why lotto is popular I guess – money solves everything. 

Do we value work-life balance? My word we do. 

But do we value it more than money? Don’t make me laugh. 

Hasn’t working from home become funny?&nbsp;
Seek have produced a thing called Money Matters, and they look at work-life balance.&nbsp;
Actually, hasn’t that become a thing as well – work-life balance. I can't place it exactly, but it seems like a Covid thing. The world changed and so did we.&nbsp;
Working hard is now so last year, or so last decade. We all long for work-life balance with a good sprinkling of mental health days.&nbsp;
But working from home is a scam because according to Money Matters if you got a pay rise you would go back to the office quick as you like.&nbsp;
So is it about work-life balance or is it about money?&nbsp;
Everything is about money. We just like to pretend it isn't. You feel more virtuous if you pretend it isn't about money.&nbsp;
But Money Matters spills the truth. Working from home is easier, we save on the commute, you claim you are more productive, blah blah blah. "Hey, how about 20% more?" Then you're out of there.&nbsp;
We would work more hours for more money, we would take on an increased workload for more money, and we would commute further for more money.&nbsp;
There isn't much we wouldn't do for more money.&nbsp;
The work from home thing, by the way, is funny because before Covid there was virtually no such thing. The idea that you could invent a thing and then having invented it, because we were all locked down anyway, turn it into a permanent thing that could only be broken by a pay rise is the ultimate in farce. It's an insight into how quickly a habit can form if it suits you.&nbsp;
Anyway, the only other thing that can make us blow up our precious work-life balance is more time off.&nbsp;
But it still doesn’t beat money.&nbsp;
It's why lotto is popular I guess – money solves everything.&nbsp;
Do we value work-life balance? My word we do.&nbsp;
But do we value it more than money? Don’t make me laugh.&nbsp;

Best of 2025: Mike's Minute - Here's the truth on working from home

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Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking once again to Wrap the Week that was. 

On today’s agenda was the gender pay gap, the Tom Phillips situation, and Kate finally got her chance to call out Mike’s behaviour from the week. 

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Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking once again to Wrap the Week that was.&nbsp;
On today’s agenda was the gender pay gap, the Tom Phillips situation, and Kate finally got her chance to call out Mike’s behaviour from the week.&nbsp;
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Best of 2025: Kate calls out Mike during Wrapping the Week on the Mike Hosking Breakfast

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Dame Noeline Taurua gives her first interview since the saga began

Dame Noeline Taurua has broken her silence, following her suspension and reinstatement as Silver Ferns coach.

The 57-year-old and her coaching team were stood down in September after player concerns emerged from a Sydney training camp.

Interim coach Yvette McCausland-Durie is leading the team on next week’s Northern Tour.

Speaking to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking in her first interview since the saga, Taurua says the suspension was horrific, and she feels partly vindicated, but not fully back in the job.

She says her happy place is on court, training with the players, so there's still a bit to go until she's really back.

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<h2>Dame Noeline Taurua gives her first interview since the saga began</h2>
Dame Noeline Taurua has broken her silence, following her suspension and reinstatement as Silver Ferns coach.
The 57-year-old and her coaching team were stood down in September after player concerns emerged from a Sydney training camp.
Interim coach Yvette McCausland-Durie is leading the team on next week’s Northern Tour.
Speaking to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking in her first interview since the saga, Taurua says the suspension was horrific, and she feels partly vindicated, but not fully back in the job.
She says her happy place is on court, training with the players, so there's still a bit to go until she's really back.
LISTEN ABOVE FOR PART 1 AND BELOW FOR PART 2

Best of 2025: Dame Noeline Taurua gives first interview since coaching saga began on the Mike Hosking Breakfast

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/7784f840-c291-422a-924b-ad9000bbad71/clips/7986b99f-913e-458c-aeda-b3cc01419d82/transcript

Nadia Lim: Kiwi Chef on her new cookbook 'Nadia's Farm Kitchen' and her farming journey

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