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So what do we know about the cooking genius and dummy-spitting toy hurlerMarco Pierre White? He’s a monster to live with and has a terrible temper, according to at least…
Muslim inmates have been unwittingly eating pork in the latest scandal to hit Britain’s tainted food industry. Prison pasties and pies labelled as Halal – where meat is slaughtered by…
A Spanish chef has been charged with trying to poison 10 of his fellow cooks over a six-year period by secretly adding toxic drugs to staff food. The unnamed 55-year-old…
I met a woman in the sea who works as a marketing manager for Hyundai and eats for a living. By that I mean she takes rich Asian clients around…
I’ve often found it incredible the lengths some people will go to get a free drink or meal. When I started my first job working behind a bar, I was…
Overweight healthy eating guru Jamie Oliver has had his Twitter account hacked with an advert for a diet fad that claims users can lose “23lbs of belly fat in one…
The first sign that Heston Blumenthal’s makeover of Little Chef had failed was in January last year when the roadside restaurant chain announced it was closing 61 of its 161…
I’ve been getting into South American and Mexican food lately after re-reading the beautifully-photographed World Food Cafe recipe book and authors Chris and Carolyn Caldicott’s travels through the orange-sunset Americas.…
I can’t claim this recipe for my own, even though I’d like to, and you’d probably never know any different. But it would feel wrong. Because the chef who lays…
There are many recipes for this classic Mexican pork snack – usually involving great hunks of pig that are cooked for hours until they can be pulled apart with blunt…
Times were hard when I was a student. Not like today. We enjoyed unheard of things like housing benefit and free tuition fees in those pre-Clegg nut times, but they…
Don’t ask me why, but I find this soup makes a great hangover cure. Perhaps it’s because I associate it with the time I lived in London and would restore…
One of my favourite bits in Breaking Bad is when Walt White is smuggled away by Saul’s guy, who specialises in creating new identities for people who have worn out…
Hearts are a very underestimated choice of meat, and should be used much more than they are. Not only because they are cheap – around £3.50 per kg – but…
This really is one of the simplest recipes, and it’s a belter – particularly if you want to sup wine with any guests you might have hanging around, rather than…
I lived above a kebab shop in Brighton when I was a student. It was a terrible place, but I learned two things. One was to wrap 1p coins in…
I came across this letter of complaint to South Bucks District Council the other day, it rather amused me so I thought I would share it… Dear Refuse and Recycling…
Pic: Patricia Varela/Flickr The door squeaked behind him, as it did every evening when the old man walked in. He turned and smiled at Mr Dutt, who was teaching his…
For this to be a success, the chicken needs to be hacked into about 15 smallish pieces. So get your chopper out and plaster the walls or, better still, get…
I finally realised it the other night. I was wandering through the streets of Aguilas, a small, seaside town in southeast Spain, looking for a place to watch England get…