One of my friends was mourning the loss of 99 Fast Food, the Vietnamese place that once drew crowds across Niagara Street from City Hall. She dried her eyes when I told her that 99 Fast Food yet lived, on Bailey Avenue a block south of the University at Buffalo South Campus. The new federal [...]

Whether in the form of a squirt of sauce on a sausage or a couple of slices on toast, tomatoes win out as New Zealand’s favourite vegetable.
The latest household economic survey by Statistics New Zealand also found bananas to be the most popular fruit.
Potatoes, lettuce and mushrooms also ranked highly in the vegetable market Foods, [...]

‘Let me guess. You’re going to the middle of the world,” says the Quito taxi driver, turning to the English backpackers in the backseat, while simultaneously negotiating the city’s mid-morning traffic.He’s right first time. The equator is one of the Ecuadorian capital’s biggest attractions - even though GPS devices have recently revealed the much-photographed line [...]

Women who cooked during the Depression and wartime knew about economising, said he who follows these things. Their books will have what you want.
Not quite. If it was eggless cakes and biscuits made with mutton fat, the old ways would have thrilled me. If I knew anyone other than myself who enjoyed tripe and liver [...]

I like it best piled on thick slabs of wholegrain bread with a daub of salad cream and more piles of peppery salad leaves.
Assemble all the ingredients before you start blending.
Green hummus
400g can of chickpeas (or 1%26frac14; cups cooked chickpeas)1 knob of fresh ginger, peeled2 Tbsp unhulled tahini2 Tbsp toasted sesame seeds1 cup frozen peas%26frac34; [...]