A top TV critic has lashed out at celebrity chef Rick Stein's latest TV show. Rick Stein's Spain launched on BBC2 yesterday and promised to investigate the little-known cuisine of the country's regions over four episodes. Viewers were treated t...
Animal Rights activists are up in arms after George the Chimp was found dead in his cell at the Center for Simian Studies and Anthropology in Coventry. Curious George was the first Chimp in captivity to figure out how to use basic kitchen implemen...
A new cooking show will explore the many ways inventive and desperately poor cooks can utilize crumbs to make luscious recipes. With the bleak economy and most people unable to afford pricey ingredients such as milk, eggs and flour, the Get Real...
A 25-year-old American became the youngest winner of the BBC's popular cooking competition Masterchef yesterday. Bar manager, Tim Anderson, gained notoriety through the 11-week competition with his experimental dishes. Presenter John Torode said h...
Hollywood - A new cooking show is getting ready to launch next month. Samantha Ivers will be the gal in front of the camera showing viewers what it really takes to make a meal. Unlike the usual half-hour cooking shows, each episode of "Real Ti...
A goldfish named Harold has set in train a controversy, by telling its owner, Mimsie Flopdangler, aged seven, of Trubshaw Crescent, Yarmouth, that people should leave fish, particularly goldfish, alone, and eat Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Mimsie...
With our native stocks of cod, haddock and plaice in decline, celebrity chefs Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver (as part of Channel 4s Fish Fight series) have been encouraging us to eat a wider variety of fish. However, the latest addition...
Following the last installment of the ever-so infrequent series on 'Best Ways to Use Your Slow Cooker the Best' we can take great delight in providing further recipes to tingle your taste buds. Slowbread This is very much like Shortbread, but cooked in a much slower fashion. Using the same ingredients; white sugar, butter, and oatmeal flour (or plain white (wheat) flour if you prefer). This...
A series of unfortunate printing mistakes has led to an Australian cook book having to be binned by Penguin Group Australia. £12,000 worth of copies of the Pasta bible had to be reprinted when the errors came to light. The first cookery cock-up...
There are plenty of "How To" articles for buying houses and the other big decisions. How To books for cooking, however, are rarely called "How to Cook", unless you look for books by Delia Smith. Instead, they have a bewildering array of names, such as "30 Minute Meals", "101 Recipes for Lentils", and the like. This makes selecting appropriate reference material more complicated. Many of you wil...
A reminder to all about the EEC ruling of January 1st 2011 making it illegal for any unlicensed person to toss pancakes within the borders of the community. The health and safety ruling came in following several accidents on pancake day last year...
Popular BBC cookery show Saturday Kitchen ended in chaos today when punches were thrown as the final credits rolled. The fracas broke out over the show's regular Omelette Challenge spot, during which the two guest chefs have to make an omelette ag...
A horrified housewife has today revealed that Jamie Oliver wrecked her entire life. Due to an unfortunate chain of circumstances, all pertaining to Jamie's new Cook Book, she ended up with No Christmas dinner, No house, No cat, and a criminal record...
Go to the back of your kitchen cupboard and what do you find? A ten-year-old tin of fruit salad in syrup? A tin of stewed beef? Well, according to a new survey, every household in Britain has 11 items in the kitchen cupboard that will never be...
Butter is a much maligned cooking ingredient. Blamed for many a heart attack it is said to be as dangerous to Western society as the car. One of the major problems with butter is it tastes so damn good. This has led nutritionist Kerry Gold to...
It will soon be revealed that Ron Popeil and George Foreman are in the process of merging their two companies, and developing a revolutionary new cooking method which will be called the Forepeil. "We have been looking at this method for a number o...
Slow Cookers, whilst excellent at cooking good food, can also be used for many other things. With a little know-how and a bit of imagination, a slow cooker can have a multitude of uses. It's all very well simply using your Slow Cooker to create your favourite hot-pot, or if you are a more experienced slow chef a super fresh slow roast chicken, but to maximise the benefits of having multiple...
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