In the province of Zhejiang, in Hangzhou, Dai Jianjun is passionate about preserving the ancient dietary doctrines of Chinese food knowledge - an art form he is seeking to salvage.
The adventures of Asterix, the world’s most famous Gaul, invariably end up with a banquet of wild boar, washed down with wine and cervoise. But did the Gauls really eat wild boar?
In 1568 Pieter Bruegel the Elder slipped into a wedding to immortalise a scene that represents a period and a society. The famous scene, exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Austria), inspires chef Jean-Baptiste...
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James Lowe discovered cooking in London’s Asian restaurants but also in the kitchens of the most captivating contemporary chefs: Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck and Fergus Henderson of the St John.
17,000 years B.C., Cro-Magnon man started to sketch the first outlines of Art history when he painted the animals that surrounded him. He used a variety of pigments, colours, animal-haired paintbrushes, stencils, sponges and sp...
> moreJean-Siméon Chardin, a once lesser known, practically illiterate, 18th century painter, became counsellor and treasurer to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture by glorifying a genre that had up until th...
> more“The hamburger is an institution, part of the myth of New York. It lets you refuel rapidly, and tantalises the taste buds with a blend of soft, sweet and savoury. The hamburger gives all your jaw muscles a workout ...
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Oriol Rovira is a tornado! A forty-something man with a strong personality, both energetic and extremely kind, who identifies first and foremost as a member of the Rovira family...