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Supermarket sweep Athens, or not keeping appearances during a crisis

('Tara Katti',) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:30:21 -0000

Her country was degraded, mocked, despised, then forgotten. What does it mean for 25-year-old student Katerina Tzekouand and Costa Andreotis, who works in a museum, to live with the crisis in Athens today?

Supper clubs between London and Paris

('Amy Tighe',) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:55:34 -0000

With all the talk of recession-wrought doom and gloom, cutbacks and taxation, it can be easy to forget to make lemon cheesecake out of Life’s proverbial lemons. If necessity is the mother of invention, let the economic depression yield inspiration. And let's have a slap-up meal in the process

Ferran Adria, culinary avant-garde

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:37:00 -0000

In his own words, he’s just a 'chef with a restaurant', but this Spanish master is in fact so much more. Read cafebabel.com's interview with Europe's master chef from 2005

European expats in New York job illegally

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:00 -0000

For those seeking adventure in Manhattan and co, the restaurant business offers an easily-found job and good money thanks to the tipping culture - a stack of advantages, that is, for those who want to live beneath the law

No more smoking in Paris' bistros

('Kate Martin',) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

On 1 January 2008, France followed Italy, Ireland, Great Britain and Spain by passing a law against smoking in public places. We went to see how things are coming along on the other side of the Alps. A report from the City of Lights