In my home country we are typically unadventurous when it comes to beans. Baked beans, which I despise, seem to rule the roost.
The ethereal lotus flower is a familiar image in China, depicted widely in many traditional paintings and carvings. During the summer months, these stunning flowers and their giant lily pads blanket parts of Beihai lake and other stretches of water in Beijing.
Adding a piece of fruit or a glass of milk to a teenager's breakfast may help protect them from depression, anxiety and disobedience, Australian research suggests.
Wet and windblown conditions did not dampen the spirits of 3000 oyster-lovers who devoured 15,000 oysters and other delicacies at the Bluff Oyster and Food Festival.
With no age limit on drinking, a no-alcohol beer brewed especially for dogs has proved a hit for an Australian pet shop.
Christ church's Luciano Marcolino has been crowned New Zealand's best barista at the national championships in Wellington over the weekend.
Babies younger than six months old should never be given water to drink, physicians said. Consuming too much water can put babies at risk of a potentially life-threatening condition.
'Fantastic Four' actress Jessica Alba, who has also topped numerous sexiest and most beautiful women poll, is trying to learn to cook Indian food.
The special coffee, a blend of extremely rare Jamaican Blue Mountain and a coffee bean harvested from the dung of Indonesian civet cats, is being sold for $100 a cup in UK.
2008. Chefs and food writers are bringing healthy Japanese home-cooking into U.S. and European kitchens, focusing on soup, vegetables and grilled fish rather than sushi and sashimi. Picture taken March 29, 2008.
A group of 2,008 young people from Guangdong province and Hong Kong special administrative region have made a 155.2 kg almond cake in Zhongshan, Guangdong.
Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, at the age of 89.
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