Food and Drink Articles

My head feels like it's been crushed in a vice - but I struggle on. I have to free myself from my slavery to the coffee bean.

Every one loves pasta. The overall beauty of pasta is its versatility, from a basic tomato sauce to a carbonara or tomato and meatball sauce to a rocket, pesto and pine nut pasta salad you can't help but be tempted by one form or another.

Sardinia is a very insular island, traditions and recipes have been handed down through generations. When in Sardinia I look forward to nothing more than waking in the morning and taking a stroll down to the local bakery to collect my traditional Sardinian bread for my breakfast and lunch.

Vine-growing, that was probably brought to the island by the Phoenicians, enjoyed a decisive boost between the XIV and XV centuries thanks to the efforts of the judge Eleonora d'Arborea and Alfonse of Aragon

Cutlery has been around for a long time, although to watch some people eat in restaurants you'd think they it was a relatively new invention. The precise date for the introduction of cutlery is unknown but it is believed to have been around the mid 17th century that forks were first used at the dinner table

Most of us like to think we know about nutrition, but do we? We know we're supposed to eat fruit and vegetables and yet fast food is more popular than ever and we all know that we are supposed to drink over 1 1/2l itres of water a day and yet soft drinks sell more than ever.