Real-estate developers and brokers are increasingly using food festivals, private dinner parties and other epicurean events to sell high-end homes.

Manuela Manetta went to the Seattle Street Food Festival last month thinking about Afghani naan bread and hot dogs. She came home with a new ...

US students have protested against the use of ciabatta in their banh mi, but there is never just one way to cook a dish

In the 1970s there was a Chinese restaurant near where I lived that served a dish they called sweet and sour pork. It was the colour of David Dickinson, and tasted of a ...

Our brain pays more attention to food when we are hungry than when we are sated. Now a team of scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues. In two newly-published studies, the researcher...

Three friends were at breakfast in a busy hotel restaurant. One ordered the fruit plate. Another had oatmeal. The third guy asked for eggs. He's quite particular about his eggs. He likes them hot.

Sugar shocked.

That describes the reaction of many Americans this week following revelations that, 50 years ago, the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists for research that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease — and put the spotlight squarely on dietary fat.

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In recent months, quick service restaurants and casual dining chains have been been complaining that deflation in the grocery aisles has kept customers from dining out. In theory, this should be good for grocers: fewer people eating out should mean more people eating in, on food they purchased fr...

With a new wave of edible subscription boxes, you can sit back and let the foods of the world come to you. Here are four to try

What delivers a thrill quite like the one that comes with a mystery gift in the mail? Subscription boxes containing everything from cosmetics to dog toys to mens...

Only 1.6% of lunchboxes in survey of English primary schools met canteen nutritional standards

Parents are still packing their children’s school lunchboxes with junk food, despite high-profile awareness campaigns on childhood obesity and guidance provided by consumer groups, researc...

Two thirds of us admit we don't write a shopping list - a task which could save your household £145 a year

British families needlessly throw away £700 worth of food every year, new research has revealed.

Over a third of households don’t reuse leftovers and admit ...