Top tucker

US economics professor and blogger extraordinaire Tyler Cowen rates fish and chips as being “to New Zealand what barbecue is to Texas-tops in the world” on his popular website marginalrevolution.com. Cowen regularly compiles lists of his favourite things about the cities, states and countries he visits, a selection of which was recently published in New York magazine. According to him, NZ is also a “first-rate locale” for Malaysian, Cambodian and Burmese cuisine.