The sharp black suits, upswept chignons and click-clack of high heels could have been the opening steps of an Yves Saint Laurent fashion show. But instead of glossy red lips, there were red-rimmed eyes as the Parisian worlds of fashion, art and politics turned out to say farewell to the towering creative figure of 20th-century [...]

Sarintip “Jazz” Singsanong came to Los Angeles in 1979 with $200 and a suitcase. Like many immigrants, she also came with a head full of recipes from her village–in this case, Pak Panang in southern Thailand. Among her 12 siblings, she was known for her cooking: “Everything I make, I make delicious,” she says. One [...]

Moving to a big city after graduation is the popular path of many college graduates. Opportunities abound; there’s lots to do and plenty of people to befriend.
But what if you don’t want to be one of millions fighting to get ahead in a big city? If the idea of a huge metropolis sounds overwhelming and [...]

When we first caught glimpses of Carrie wearing a white minidress with a fabric hibiscus flower the size of a pizza, we knew the Sex and the City movie would be bigger than the series in every way, fashion included.
Amid rumors about the movie’s plot - wedding! funeral! baby! - fans began buzzing about the [...]

The Oasis sponsored London Fashion in Film Festival 2008, which is running till the end of May, comprises a series of films sharing the running theme of how fashion, costume and styling are used in film to add an air of chic decadence. The films will be screened at five major London arts venues, the [...]

German nudists seeking to take the experience to the skies had some cold water thrown on their vacation plans last week after their chartered flight to the Baltic Sea island of Usedom was cancelled.
Citing “moral objections” from the media and some negative comments from customers on the company’s Web site, online travel agency OssiUrlaub.de terminated [...]

My mother was an Orthodox Jew, and the food she made at home was bland and overcooked, especially the vegetables. The long-broiled steaks and livers and pasty potatoes and mammaliga (corn meal mush) were no match for the crisp, tasty meat and bright green vegetables I knew from eating with Chinese folks at restaurants in [...]

In a pristine kitchen-cum-laboratory, deep inside Marks and Spencer’s gleaming new Paddington headquarters, Simon Allison, a senior food technologist, is sampling part of a recently launched range of organic food – a chicken and vegetable terrine.
He explains what he is looking for: “Crushed carrots in the topping, a red, livery, paté-style flavour underneath.” For texture, [...]

Ihave been humbled by a six-year-old. The finest culinary education money can buy, 20 years of cooking all over the world, thousands of self-written recipes: all dumped down the drain by the toughest food critic I’ve ever met. My son, Gabe.
So I write recipes for a living, so what? Creative cooking doesn’t impress him [...]

Thailand’s annual Tourism Festival and Travel Mart 2008 to be held 5-8 June, 2008, at Challenger Hall, Impact Muang Thong Thani Exhibition Centre, is to grow still further this year with the inclusion of exhibitors from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Already the biggest such event in the kingdom, the Thailand Travel Mart (TTM) 2008 Plus Amazing Gateway [...]