This week in food news, fusion restaurant Show Me Chuy teases its opening, Girl Scout cookie season begins and a festival ...

Belgium's food agency has warned people not to eat their Christmas trees after the city of Ghent suggested reusing pine needles in recipes as a way to reduce waste. The country's Federal Food ...

Aidan Chapman died in hospital on New Year's Eve A man who was hurt when a car hit pedestrians in London's West End on Christmas Day has died. Aidan Chapman, 25, died in hospital on New Year's Eve ...

Eicher attended a Christmas Bazaar where she sold copies of her cookbooks and visited with readers. Eicher plans to bake and decorate cutout cookies with her daughter. On Sunday, we attended ...

An annual anti-Christmas protest held by Japan's Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men failed to materialise this year as the group didn't put in their paperwork. The long-running protest ...

The Italian newspaper Il Foglio is calling on authorities to help bring home one of its journalists who was detained in Iran just before Christmas. Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in ...

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Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was “stopped by Tehran ...

1) Practicing Giorno di Magro: Abstaining from meat on Christmas Eve. -Pesce or fish is the main star on the Italian dinner table on Christmas Eve. The types of fish and the cooking preference can ...

When my husband and I drive around in the days after Christmas and see decorations and Christmas trees in houses still glowing, we quip, “They must be Catholic.” It is a bit like the comment ...

Dame Vanessa, now 87, was one of Britain’s biggest stars at the time and her decision to have a baby with her Italian film star ... which featured episodes on Christmas Day and Boxing Day ...