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| Spring Surprises As the colors in the kitchen change from beige to green, Nigel Slater adds fresh nettles and herbs to silky soups and sunny... |
Less is More Single-grape wines tend to be dismissed as vinous 'junk food' by French snobs. But times might be changing, says Tim Atkin |
| Ask Tim Tim Atkin answers your wine questions |
Ask Nigel Nigel Slater answers your cooking questions |
| What's in the Big Apple? The owners of New York's fast food joints are feeling queasy over legal pressure to reveal how many calories go into their... |
Pepsi Tackles Childhood Obesity With Videogames in Mexico In a country, where 80% of schools lack access to drinking water, Pepsi challenges students to stave off obesity while... |
| Japan in Culinary Offensive to Stop Spread of Us Fish The keepers of Japan's biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish - possibly... |
What's in the Big Apple? The owners of New York's fast food joints are feeling queasy over legal pressure to reveal how many calories go into their... |
| California Winemaker Becomes King of the Castle Grumbles from Napa locals over $30m folly built to honor Italian ancestors. |
Of All the Beachfront Restaurants in India, She Walks Into Mine It seems safe to assume that most viewers of Ezham Mudra, a film by Indian director Rajeev Nath, will be unaware that they... |
| Club Provides Cooks' Tour of World Leaders Chefs des chefs gather to discuss how to spice up those political summits. |
Grown in Italy, Pressed in Sweden, Sold As Chianti. Europlonk Nouveau Has Arrived Commission to take on US and Australian producers - Traditionalists outraged at plans for blended wines |
| That's My Recipe! Restaurant Owner Takes Ex-chef to Court Seafood bar owner says rival eatery is exact copy - Legal action over menu, styling - and Caesar salad |
Starbucks and Ethiopia Get Together Over Coffee The long-running dispute between Starbucks and the Ethiopian government was close to being resolved last night after the... |
| It's a Scandal: Oklahoma Declares Watermelon a Vegetable Everywhere else it is considered a fruit, but in Oklahoma the watermelon has been officially declared a vegetable. |
Sheep, Cheese and a Profonde Crisis That Could Decide Who Rules France Presidential candidates play down their urban links in battle for the decisive rural vote. |
| In Search of the Beans of Chuao The story of some of the world's most desired chocolate begins in a remote plantation deep in the Venezuelan forest. Paul... |
Take the Coca Out of Cola, Bolivian Farmers Say Bolivian coca farmers want to reclaim the leaf as part of their country's cultural heritage by forcing the US drinks giant... |
| Sushi Knives Are Out for Michelin Critics French gourmets' bible to publish first Tokyo guide - Japanese chefs question Europeans' expertise |
The Legacy of E&j Gallo Sniffed at by wine hacks and snaffled up by consumers, E&J Gallo's wines have become a fixture in almost every alcohol... |
| Winemaker Who Brought Grapes of Wealth to California Dies, Aged 97 Founder turned a modest family brewing firm into world's largest producer. |
A Woman's Place: France Rocked By Michelin's Latest Three-star Chef Female cook wins award for first time in 50 years - Fish specialist overcame macho gastronomic world |
| Kvas is It? Coca-cola Bids to Bottle the 'coke of Communism' Coca-Cola, the ultimate symbol of western capitalism, is to start producing kvas, the Russian drink made from fermented... |
Starbucks Stirred By Fair Trade Film Representative of Ethiopian farmers to meet Blair as exposé of industry released. |
| Why the Rich and Fabulous Prefer Their Comfort Food in a Closed Shop In a city where your social status is measured by where you can get a table, at what time, and next to whom, there is... |
Music 'n' Passion Isn't Always in Fashion Copacabana, once home to the Manhattan party set and Manilow's Lola, to move on. |
| Rich Russians Ditch Vodka for 'aspirational Drinks' Russia's long and boozy love affair with vodka appears to be drawing to an end, with figures showing that newly affluent... |
Cloned Meat Could Be on Next Year's Us Christmas Menu Ten years after the birth of the world's first cloned animal, Dolly the Sheep, America was set yesterday to become the... |
| Restaurants Must Count Calories As of next year, in a decree passed this month, restaurant chains in New York will be obliged to list calories on their... |
Dan Aykroyd Joins Wine Rush With Ottawa Vintage The film star and comedian has launched a range of wines under his own name from his native Canada and has turned to the... |
| Peter Brabeck-letmathe Nestle veteran who started out selling ice cream is now an unlikely bogeyman of food campaigners. |
Do You Want Ice With That? Two employees of an ice rink in Boise, Idaho, have been sacked for taking a ride to a local burger drive-thru in a pair of... |
| From Hell's Kitchen to Lukewarm New York Restaurant union warns Ramsay to mind his language while at work. |
Burger King Sued Over Dope in Police Buns The plaintiffs' lawyer was determined to get the joke in. 'It gives a whole new meaning to the word Whopper,' Sam Bregman... |
| US Policemen Sue Over Drug-spiked Burgers Two US police officers are suing Burger King after they were served hamburgers that had been spiked with marijuana. |
France Fights Back Against New World Wine Rivals In an unprecedented makeover, French vineyards ditch their snobbish past and go user-friendly. |
| New York to Outlaw Trans Fats in 24,000 Restaurants · City health board acts over heart disease worries · Food outlets face limit of half gram per serving |
Barman to the Stars Reaches 90 New York's oldest bartender learned early in his career not to be over-awed in the presence of celebrity. |
| Harry Olivieri Obituary: Co-creator of the Philly Cheesesteak. |
Has Coke Become the New Mcdonald's? · Drinks firm hit by a hunger strike and college boycotts · Coca-Cola says it is a target because it is the top brand |
| Starbucks Denies Cockroaches and Rats Infest New York Outlets Starbucks branches in New York are infested with rats and cockroaches yet the company refuses to do anything about it, say... |
India Bans Soft Drinks in Pesticides Row Coca-Cola and Pepsi are being banned across several Indian states after an environmental pressure group said it had found... |
| The Last of California's Summer Wine? Global warming could see 80 per cent of the area's famous vineyards disappear, say scientists |
Healthier Menu Gives Mcdonald's Healthier Sales in Europe McDonald's has notched up its biggest increase in European sales for a decade, suggesting that menu changes, new restaurant... |
| Never Mix Grape With the Grain, Say Vodka Purists Sweden, Finland and Poland are joining forces to try to ensure that only vodka made from barley-grain and potato can count... |
Food Giants to Boycott Illegal Amazon Soya · UK retailers expected to sign moratorium today · Move hailed as victory for consumer power |
| Mon Dieu! It's Whisky From Champagne At the height of the worst wine crisis for years, a Frenchman has turned his back on tradition and is successfully... |
Cradle of Winemaking Refuses to Be Crushed By Russian Ban The Georgian wine industry, thought to be the world's oldest, is reeling from Russia's blanket ban on exports of its wine... |
| Beaujolais Nouveau's Inventor Fined for Fraud · Illegal blending costs Georges Duboeuf £20,000 · Firm blames human error and considers appeal |
Russians Suffer Wine Drought Russian wine lovers are facing a parched summer after a bureaucratic foul-up has left shelves empty in off-licences across... |
| Russian Drinkers Thirst for Foreign Wines Russian wine lovers are facing a parched summer after a bureaucratic foul-up that has left shelves empty in off-licences... |
Drowning in Europe's Wine Lake French winemakers threatened as Brussels orders vines to be ripped out to control surplus. |
| The Shutters Come Down on France's Bistro Culture France's bistros are shutting so quickly, according to new statistics, that within 10 years they will all either have... |
Commission Pulls Plug on Eu Wine Lake The wine-makers of France and Italy have been given yet another reason to weep into their glasses and shake their... |
| Russian 'sour Grapes' Embargo Leaves Georgian Wine Makers Counting the Cost In the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia locals are smarting at Moscow's decision to ban all imports of wine from the... |
Melons Fetch Record Price in First Auction of Season The worst excesses of Japan's economic bubble of the 1980s were on display again yesterday when a pair of melons fetched a... |
| Wal-Mart Plans Huge Move Into Organic Food Organic Rice Krispies, organic Frosted Mini Wheats and even organic Pepsi may define the future of American eating habits... |
Bordeaux's End of the Vine Growers are deserting a classic wine region, reports Jason Burke from Sauveterre-de-Guyenne. |
| Chicago Takes Foie Gras Off Menu Chicago is not famous for being squeamish about food. Its slaughterhouses once turned it into the meat production capital... |
Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation Saturday Interview: Five years ago, Eric Schlosser changed the way we ate with Fast Food Nation. Now he's served up a... |
| Ben & Jerry's New Flavour Leaves Bad Taste Ben & Jerry's, the socially aware ice-cream maker, has apologised to Irish consumers for launching a new flavour evoking... |
Hop Off, Frogs' Legs - Couscous is the Top Dish Those who hope the poll results reveal a nation increasingly at ease with a multicultural and multiethnic population may be... |
| Salad Days As Japan Roots for Plucky Radish The quiet Tokyo neighbourhood of Higashikurume is getting its 15 minutes of fame - all because of a root vegetable that... |
McDonald's Changes Its Brand to Suit Kosher Appetites · Chain bows to pressure from Tel Aviv's chief rabbi · All Israeli stores may have blue and white signs |
| Olympic Team's Caviar 'broke Export Ban' The Russian delegation at the Turin Winter Olympics has been accused of breaking international environmental conventions by... |
France Launches Route to New World A French wine company is hoping to lure oenophiles back by taking a leaf out of the New World success storybook. Mark Tran... |
| A Pint of Beer, Yours for £7 Welcome to Oslo, the most expensive city in the world, where a packet of cigarettes costs £6. |
Polluted Pasta Causes Toxin Alarm in Italy Italians tucked into their pasta yesterday with a little less relish than usual after learning that 58,000 tonnes of wheat... |
| New Start for World Trade Centre Workers Staff from the Windows on the World restaurant, which was at the top of one of the World Trade Center towers, were last... |
Ban on Trade in Wild Caviar As Sturgeon Stocks Plunge · Exporters urged to take steps to protect species · Fish numbers said to have fallen by 90% in 30 years |
| Diamond-studded Cake is $1.7m Christmas Treat A diamond-studded Christmas cake went on sale at Takashimaya department store in Tokyo this week for $1.7m (about £970,000). |
Colombia's Indians Bank on Coca Drink Becoming the Real Thing Forget Coca-Cola, a group of Colombian Indians is telling its community, and drink coca instead. |
| Skippy Keeps Kangaroo Meat Off the Barbie When it comes to kangaroos, it seems Australians prefer to see Skippy on television rather than flame-grilled on the... |
London Loses Its Culinary Cool to a Star-studded New York Michelin has launched its first US restaurant guide, putting the Big Apple ahead of London in the world cuisine league.... |
| Whisky Galore As China Takes Scotch With Its Tea It probably gives an unsettling colour but it may also relieve the hangover. A fashion for mixing whisky with... |
Starbucks to Serve Up God With a Skinny Cappuccino Coffee drinkers in the US could soon get Jesus with their morning jolt as Starbucks plans to put a religious message on its... |
| Obituary: Helen O'brien Nightclub owner who served drinks to - and spied on - her influential customers. |
Spain's Greenhouse Effect: the Shimmering Sea of Polythene Consuming the Land To grow food all year, Almería is cloaked in plastic. But soil-free farming is bringing prosperity and problems. |
| How France Finally Fell in Love With Britain's Humble Crumble Our neighbours pour scorn on Anglo-Saxon cuisine, yet a new book reveals the dish now gaining Gallic plaudits is a very... |
Titbits Savoured at Top Chefs' Summit They know how George W likes his Thanksgiving turkey, how the Queen takes her toast and just how many puddings Bill Clinton... |
| Winegrowers' Day of Destiny Dawns in Battle of Beaujolais The lines have been drawn between the vines, the trenches dug in the famous, sandy soil: tomorrow will see the final... |
Halal Burger Bar Opens in Paris France's first restaurant serving halal meat in an American-style fast-food setting has opened in the suburbs of Paris.... |
| Cola Wars As Coke Moves on Baghdad Coca-Cola has returned to Iraq after an absence of nearly four decades, triggering a cola war in a lucrative but... |
French Winemakers Target Bacardi Breezer Generation Beleaguered growers target Bacardi Breezer generation. |
| EU Votes to Continue Ban on Gm Crops Britain warns ministers of threat of trade war with US. |
Japan to Sell Whale Burgers A Japanese hamburger chain will start selling whale-meat burgers hours after the International Whaling Commission condemned... |
| Iran's Tea Industry Drains Away As Smugglers Vie for a Share of the Pot It was smuggled to Iran in secret, from under the nose of the British establishment in India. But now the country's tea... |
Champagne: Hurley and Ken Serve Indian Wines Once dismissed as undrinkably sickly, wine made in India is about to be aggressively marketed in Britain. |
| Pressure Forces Top French Chef to Hand in His Stars Owner of celebrated restaurant pulls out of 'senseless' ratings race. |
Big Cheese Rules on Feta Legal adviser to European court of justice reasserts Greece's exclusive right to call its unpasteurised sheep's milk cheese... |
| Farmers Say Gm Rice Cuts Pesticide Illness Small farmers in China growing GM rice reported higher yields than for conventional varieties, a lower use of pesticides,... |
French Bitter Over Wine Study A British institution will this week rubbish France's perennial claim that its unique soil and climatic conditions are... |
| Switzerland Lifts Ban on Absinthe The country that invented absinthe, and then banned it, has decided to embrace the drink again, almost a century after it... |
US Hospital Tries to Evict Mcdonald's Burger giant refuses to give up its franchise without a fight. One of America's premier cardiac hospitals is locked in a... |
| French Vineyards Face Worst Crisis in More Than a Century Tens of thousands of angry winemakers took to the streets across France yesterday demanding urgent government action to... |
Chateau Stalin Up for Grabs In the shameful arena - for a communist - of Sotheby's auction rooms in London, 195 bottles from Stalin's dessert wine... |
| Ibiza on the Liffey: But Where Are the Irish? Badly behaved binge drinkers led locals to desert Temple Bar. Now efforts are under way to reclaim it for culture. |
Things Grow Better With Coke Indian farmers have come up with what they think is the real thing to keep crops free of bugs. Instead of paying hefty fees... |
| Piazzas Before Pizzas is Rome's New War Cry Several squares in central Rome have turned into virtual extensions of the surrounding bars and restaurants in recent... |
Champagne Battle Set to Bubble Over Winemakers in a tiny Swiss village are fighting for their livelihood against the mighty producers of a better-known bubbly... |
| Kalashnikov Inventor Turns His Hand to Vodka In one of the most bizarre, and some might suggest tasteless, of marketing exercises, General Mikhail Kalashnikov is... |
Costa Gives Wine a Bad Name A group of wine-growers from north-eastern Spain has asked permission to drop the name Costa Brava from their place of... |
| Garson! You're Slow, Surly and at Last You've Admitted It In a mea culpa as welcome as it was unexpected, the owners of France's 60,000 bars, brasseries and cafes admitted yesterday... |
Foodies From 150 Countries to Celebrate Traditional Eating Next month 5,000 foodies from 150 different countries will gather in the northern Italian city of Turin to swap experiences... |
| Go-ahead for Gm Planting The first genetically modified seeds for planting and sale across the European Union, including the UK, were given the... |
UK Demand for Soya Destroying Amazon The Amazon rainforest and savanna lands are being destroyed at a rate of 1.2m hectares (3m acres) a year to feed Europe's... |
| A morning beer in Pakistan Pakistan's only brewery does surprisingly well in a country that is officially almost dry. It would be unusual anywhere at... |
McDonald's Fights Back Against Hit Film At first glance the text of the advert running in national newspapers today reads like an attack on the burger and fries... |
| Denmark Bans Kellogg's Vitamins Danish health officials yesterday banned the cereal company Kellogg's from adding vitamins and minerals to its famous food... |
'Salami' Tube Ads Outrage Italians The aroma of cheese and onion crisps and the stench of greasy burgers may linger on the tube for longer after London... |
| Winemakers Seek Health Tag in Thirst for Sales An increasingly heated row is raging in France between wine makers and the medical establishment about how, or whether,... |
Global Warming Has Cut Yields, Say Scientists Global warming has cut rice harvests by at least 10% and possibly much more, scientists in the Philippines reported... |
| Sales Cut As Bordeaux Goes Into Red Faced with what some are calling its greatest crisis for 150 years, France's most prestigious winegrowing region has... |
Scientists Discover Decaf Coffee Bean It's the news coffee-loving insomniacs the world over have been waiting for - scientists have discovered a naturally... |
| Twisted Tail of a Bar Snack Too Far An Australian pub has apologised over a game in which contestants were egged on to eat live mice to win a A$500 (£200)... |
Legislation Seeks to Keep Neapolitan Pizza Authentic In an attempt to save the true Neapolitan pizza from extinction, the Italian parliament is to debate a bill that defines it... |
| Singaporeans Enter the Gum-chewing 21st Century The good news for Singapore's secret army of clandestine chewers: gum is going on sale legally for the first time in 12... |
EU Lifts Six-year Ban on Gm Corn The EU is to approve the sale of a brand of genetically modified corn for human consumption - ending a six-year ban that... |
| French Bid to Halt Plunge in Wine Sales Plan to create Gallic premier league in 'appellation' system shakeup may not be enough to match success of New World brands. |
Sauerkraut Makers Target British Diners For years it has been a dish of derision, a food even the hungriest of Britons would fail to make a meal of. But if a... |
| Guides Show Parisians Where Their Best Bread is Buttered There are very few places in the world where a gourmet guide to baguettes would find a publisher; only in France could two... |
US Takes Action Against Illegal Beluga Trade The US is taking action to shut down the illegal trade in Beluga caviar because the fish that produces it is heading for... |
| French Laws Threaten Culinary Culture, Says Conran French culinary culture is under threat from excessive law-making which is forcing restaurants into closure or fraud,... |
Arrival of the Hand-held Pizza In the innermost recesses of an exclusive school for top chefs, Italians have been plotting a devastating counter-strike... |
| Sweden Approves Gm Potato Crops Sweden has approved the growing of the first genetically modified potato - not for human consumption but for production of... |
The Wines They Are A-changin': Bottled Bob to Sell for £35 A classy blend of Montepulciano and Merlot will reach the shelves in a bottle signed by Bob Dylan and bearing the name of... |
| A Case of Vintage Whines Jon Henley asks if French wine is losing its raison d'être as winemakers go on the warpath over advertising bans. |
Tides Kill 18 Cockle Pickers At least 18 people died when they were trapped by rising tides as they picked cockles on the notoriously dangerous mudflats... |
| Soft-drink Giants Accused Over Pesticides Coke and Pepsi residues posed health risk, say Indian MPs. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo sold soft drinks containing pesticides... |
US Sugar Barons 'block Global War on Obesity' Leading scientists accused the Bush administration last night of putting the interests of powerful American sugar barons... |
| US in Fresh Blow to Scottish Salmon Farms Salmon from Scottish fish farms was refused entry to the US after tests showed the batches were unfit for human consumption... |
Days of Cheap French Drink May Be Numbered After big tobacco tax rises, health advisers urge ministers to consider similar increases in alcohol prices. |
| Pubs With No Beer Loom in Australia Australian pub-goers are facing their worst nightmare: a beer drought that is threatening to bite at the start of the... |
Herds Quarantined in Us Mad Cow Case American officials were yesterday trying to determine whether the country's first case of mad cow disease was an isolated... |
| Vineyards See Red As Seven Million Bottles Go to Waste Australian wine growers, grappling with a hangover of monumental proportions, plan to dump 7m bottles of plonk after... |
Cabinet Papers Warn Canada Off Gm Crops A secret briefing to the Canadian government has warned that the country's massive food exports are at risk from its... |
| New Zealand to Allow Trials of Gm Crops As Two-year Ban Ends A two-year ban on genetically modified crop trials in New Zealand was lifted last night, despite warnings that the... |
EU Revives Row Over Hormone Beef Ban The European commission reopened one of the most damaging recent disputes with the US yesterday when it insisted that North... |
| Cuisine Goes Back to College Alarmed by a waning of France's global prestige in all things culinary, the government is to establish a university of... |
French cafe society foaming at Starbucks invasion It is a fair bet that the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, and de Beauvoir, would not have become the giants of... |
| Brazil Agrees to Grow Gm Crops Brazil, the last big country to resist GM crops, dashed the hopes of environmentalists yesterday and gave in to pressure... |
Voters Will Not Swallow Latte Tax It was announced yesterday that Seattle's electorate of espresso drinkers had rejected plans to introduce a 10c (6p) tax on... |
| Germany Complains to Italy About Hitler Wines Germany's justice minister, Brigitte Zypries, has protested to her Italian counterpart, Roberto Castelli about the sale of... |
Italians Uncork New Row With Hitler Plonk An Italian wine merchant is doing a thriving trade in wines labelled with pictures of Hitler, threatening another... |
| Waiter! Another slice of life, please When a restaurant closes, it's like losing a part of your existence. When people die, we remember and salute them;... |
Europe's harvest crisis Fear of severe effect on economies after heatwave devastates grain crops. The prolonged heatwave has devastated crops... |
| Vino off the hook in blitz on booze Spanish officials looking for a way to stamp out binge drinking by young people have decided to warn them that all alcohol... |
Truffle farmers feel the heat Gloom over gourmet fungus adds to France's farming woes. First large swaths of the country's oyster supplies were submerged... |
| Brussels Blocks Austrian Attempt to Create Gm-free Zone The European commission has blocked the first attempt by an EU region to turn itself into a statutory GM-free zone. Upper... |
Coffee Drinkers Find Tax Hard to Swallow Espresso drinkers are uniting in Seattle in opposition to plans to impose a new tax on their morning habit. In two weeks'... |
| Food Fight on the Menu for Wto Talks in Cancun Brussels seeks to protect Liebfraumilch from emulators with 600-item list of exclusively European delicacies. Liebfraumilch... |
Top chefs grill each other in name of peace Presidents and monarchs across the globe may detect a microwaved quality to their food this week as exclusive chefs abandon... |
| Booze Culture Gets a Bashing Australia's image as a land of alcohol-fuelled hedonism is under attack this week at a conference sponsored by the... |
US Escalates Gm Food Row With Europe Europe's dispute with America over genetically modified food escalated yesterday after Washington asked the World Trade... |
| Beaujolais harvest is a month early The noise of ripping vine-stems, rustling leaves and the rattle of heavy buckets kicked along dry earth has never before... |
Delhi Court Orders Inquiry Into Claims of Poisons in Soft Drinks An Indian judge yesterday ordered an independent scientific investigation into allegations that Pepsi drinks sold in India... |
| 'Mutant fish' fear for Caspian caviar Hagi puts two fingers beneath the gills of the huge Beluga sturgeon he fished from the Azerbaijani shores of the Caspian... |
Brewers Go Head to Head in Battle for Muslim Markets Forget Pepsi versus Coca-Cola. The next big battle of the beverages is brewing between European lager giants in the most... |
| India Orders an Inquiry Into 'toxic Soft Drinks' Claim The Indian government has ordered in investigation into why an analysis of 12 brands of cold drinks owned and marketed by... |
Harrods with a hole American tourists will soon feel at home in Harrods when Krispy Kreme, the US doughnut retail chain, opens its first outlet... |
| French must lift chocolate bar After 30 years of campaigning, French gourmets have lost a bitterly fought battle to keep their chocolate pure. This week... |
EU Holds Key to Trade Talks in the Parma Its Ham The EU is demanding the right to retain the exclusive use of luxury food and drink names such as champagne, parma ham and... |
| 'I am the most powerful person in the wine world' In the vineyards and grand chateaux of Bordeaux, the word has already spread: Parker is coming. The arrival in these parts... |
260 Billion Eggs on the Chinese Menu Its economy is growing at a staggering rate and its people are beginning to enjoy a better diet as well as a taste of... |
| Brussels Crackdown on Food Health Claims European food manufacturers will have to come clean about health and nutritional claims they make under far-reaching... |
Irish Chew Over Gum Mess Levy The Irish government plans to clean up its streets with a tax on chewing gum, polystyrene burger cartons and cash machine... |
| I couldn't live without ... Nigella, Jamie, Delia and other top chefs on their favourite kitchen utensils. |
Kraft Cuts Size of Snacks 'to Help Fight Obesity' Kraft Foods, the world's biggest maker of processed foods, said yesterday it would shrink its ready-made meals and snacks... |
| Tea As boffins reveal the recipe for the perfect cuppa, we find the best sites on Britain's favourite beverage. |
McDonald's Bans Antibiotics in Meat Fast food giant McDonald's has responded to public health concerns by telling its meat suppliers to stop pumping their... |
| British cuppa under threat as warm and wet becomes herbal and green The traditional British solution to a crisis - putting on the kettle for a nice cup of tea - is the latest victim of the... |
Hushed Reception for the Café Des Signes To order a plate of chips at Paris's Café des Signes, interlock your fingers in the form of a steeple, look the waiter in... |
| McDonald's Fries Critic of Its 'cardboard' Food The leading advocate for Italy's 'slow food' movement is being sued by the giant US burger chain after panning the food... |
Time for a Caffeine Fix The problems of 25 million coffee farmers really do amount to a hill of beans, says Mark Tran. |
| Guinness calls time on the quick one For the purists, it was sacrilege. In an age of ever-tighter deadlines and increasingly impatient consumers, even Guinness... |
US Uses Gm Foods in First Assault of Eu Trade Battle Washington is coming under mounting pressure from big business to use the transatlantic trade spat over GM crops as a test... |
| America Challenges Gm Crops Ban President Bush launched a legal challenge at the World Trade Organisation yesterday to force Europe to accept imports of... |
Animal Activists Win on Chicken Welfare One of the world's largest food firms has bowed to pressure from animal rights activists over the treatment of its animals.... |
| Storm in a New World Wine Glass The EU is risking another trade war over the way some Australian wines are flavoured with an oaky undertone. Traditionally... |
Secrets and pies In Diamonds Are Forever, two hit men, Mr Wint and Mr Kidd, pose as gourmet chefs aboard James Bond's cruise ship. Fools!... |
| Taco's Tomato Pickers on Slave Wages The American fast food giant Taco Bell has been buying tomatoes produced by slave and sweatshop labour, according to a... |
Why my chef friend died Bernard Loiseau, in my opinion, was one of the great leaders of French cooking, a pioneer of gastronomy. You don't win... |
| Top Chef Kills Himself After Losing Points in Food Guide France's top chefs railed yesterday against the pressures of their job and the power of the critics after one of this... |
'McFrankenstein' returns to haunt fast food chain in new court action McDonald's was last night facing a renewed legal action claiming the fast food chain was responsible for health problems... |
| US halts plan to foist GM food on Europe Washington has backed away from threats to bring the European Union before the World Trade Organisation over the EU's... |
The establishment's establishment I walk past a pair of parked Rollers (3JW and DON II) into the Savoy Grill. The maître d' shows me to my table with quiet,... |
| Busch case nipped in the Bud The US brewing group Anheuser-Busch yesterday fell flat in its attempt to stop its tiny Czech rival from using the name Bud... |
US Cheese Boycott Creates a Stink for French A French internet cheesemonger who sells most of his camembert and roquefort to Americans has become the first victim of... |
| Curry lovers suffer when it's too hot and dry Curry-lovers face paying more for their basmati rice. The price of the specialist grain is rising daily due to low rainfall... |
Michelin Dishes Out Awards It was business as usual at Le Cinq yesterday. For starters you could order cream of watercress soup with Sevruga caviar... |
| Poultry Pay Puts Fast Food Giant in Dock US chicken supplier on trial for importing illegal workers. One of the world's largest chicken producers, which is a key... |
Is it the real thing? To some cola is cola, a sweet and mildly refreshing drink you can order in a pub if you're not drinking - and after the... |
| Australian star enters US wine universe The largest wine company in the world was created yesterday when Constellation Brands of America unveiled a $1.4bn (£870m)... |
Think Muslim, drink Muslim, says new rival to Coke It is packaged in the lurid red and white of the Stars and Stripes and the logo mimics that famous swirl, but there is... |
| Haute cuisine? Richard Neat, the inspired British chef who won two Michelin Guide stars for his London restaurant, Pied à Terre, in the... |
The fall and rise of Jamie He was dismissed as a 'mockney gobshite' until his new show melted hearts. Now Sainsbury's says he's responsible for a... |
| Co-op Chooses Fairtrade Cocoa for All Its Chocolate The Co-op is to make all its own brand chocolate bars from Fairtrade cocoa in an effort to give west African producers a... |
Youngsters sue McDonald's for failing to warn that fast food can lead to obesity Eight New York children are suing McDonald's, the fast-food giant, accusing it of failing to make clear that a daily diet... |
| Licensing laws Britain's drinkers are licking their lips at the prospect of 24-hour drinking. Here's our guide to the best sites on... |
Falling Sales Slow Worldwide March of Mcdonald's The troubles facing McDonald's deepened yesterday as the burger chain warned of a profit shortfall and announced the... |
| Air Monster Set to Wreck Peace of Wine Valley On of the quietest regions of rural France is fighting to save its bucolic lifestyle as the world's biggest engineering... |
Russia lite: Nyet to vodka, Da to beer Beer is set to outstrip vodka as Russia's favourite tipple, sparking an identity crisis for a nation torn between the... |
| New Eu Rules to End Ban on Gm Food Legislation expected to bring the end of a four-year ban on the sale and use of new genetically modified food products in... |
Cider Britain's largest cider manufacturer might be in trouble, but we're still going to celebrate the fermented apple drink by... |
| Master Chefs Feed Gm Foods Rebellion France's leading cooks are in open revolt against tampering with Europe's crops and cattle. They are among the most... |
France Lifts Ban on British Beef After Six-year Dispute The French government finally lifted its ban on British beef yesterday, ending a dispute that has soured relations between... |
| McDonald's is Flailing Around for an Answer to Falling Sales McDonald's is flailing around for an answer to falling sales. The latest big idea? Waitresses in a classic American diner. |
Coffee Growers in Revolt Exporters say 5m bags of low grade beans must be destroyed to rescue farmers. Coffee exporting countries said yesterday... |
| The potato Britons these days apparently prefer their spuds processed rather than fresh. Here's our guide to the best sites on... |
Snobs' new whines and old bottles hit Beaujolais hard It was not only the low cloud and drizzle that cast a gloom over Beaujolais vineyards when the vendanges - the grape... |
| Choc horror A century ago, Milton Hershey set up a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania. Since then the town has thrived - it is wealthy,... |
New From Mcdonald's: the Mcafrika Burger (don't Tell the 12m Starving) McDonald's has been accused of extreme insensitivity after releasing a new sandwich called the "McAfrika" in... |
| Nothing Like Mama Used to Make In Britain, we love Italian food - but is it the real thing? No, says the Italian government. Matthew Fort on whether our... |
Italian Taste Police Coming to a Restaurant Near You Italy is planning to introduce a system of quality control to guarantee the authenticity of Italian restaurants abroad. |
| I'm Good, I'm Tempting. But I Leave a Bad Taste in the Mouth The marketing people at Cadbury's India thought they would try to sell more chocolate by playing on the biggest issue... |
France's leafier suburbs When in France, there's nothing like a traditional, bustling street market for the greenest salad, the creamiest cheeses,... |
| It's enough to set your pulse racing When a nice Jewish girl from Golders Green is swept off to 1960s Rome by her new Italian husband, one question has to be... |
Keith's kingdom Balthazar and Pastis are among New York's hippest restaurants, but their French-inspired appeal is all down to Keith... |
| US ban gives beleaguered beluga a breeding space Beluga caviar, at £80 an ounce (28g) one of the world's most expensive foods, is to be banned in the United States because... |
How to buy: Organic food Here's your choice: on the one hand, you have an intensively farmed apple, sprayed with pesticides, that has travelled... |
| Garlic All you need to know about the stinking rose, and why one's head of state will not be doing as the Romans do. |
Marmite It's centenary year for Marmite and we find the websites that will tell you everything you need to know about the brown... |
| Fluoride Ban Clashes With Eu Law A controversial Belgian attempt to ban food supplements and chewing gum containing fluoride fell foul of European law... |
MPs look to curry flavour Westminster's vindaloo-loving MPs could soon have their own curry house on the premises, in a bid to widen the diets of... |
| Last hurrah for Russian tea and Tiffany One of New York's landmark night spots, its shining red decor graced by a galaxy of stars and legions of tourists, is to... |
Are you being served? A meal out for two on the continent costs just a few quid, yet here you're likely to end up with a £50-plus bill. Joanna... |
| Parsley Read our guide to the best sites on the world's favourite herb. |
BSE risk over chicken injected with beef Vast quantities of frozen chicken adulterated with beef protein powder, which the authorities admit could present a risk of... |
| Hard cheese ruling for Parmesan's imitators The Parmesan war ended in victory for aficionados of the hard salty cheese yesterday when the European court of justice... |
How to make tea There are few things more quintessentially English than a cup of Twinings Traditional Afternoon tea. But the tale of these... |
| American courts asked to ban imports of beluga caviar Conservation groups in Washington, alarmed that the beluga sturgeon is being fished to extinction for its caviar, have... |
Organic Farms in Scandal of Illegal Herbicide Organic farming in Germany is suffering what one politician has called its biggest scandal with the discovery of a... |