cooking
Seadas or sebadas: how to make Sardinian cheese pastry
Originally simple dishes of rural origin, 'sebadas' or 'seadas' have been given a new identity and today are served as a dessert. This is the brief story of a Sardinian delicacy whose roots are buried deep in the ancient rustic tradition
cooking, sebadas, italy, eat, sardinia, traditions, yum nyam
How to make Polish potato pancakes
It’s cheap and available, warm and nourishing, omnipresent in most traditional European cuisines – but the starchy crop only hit the continent from South America as late as the 16th century
cooking, italy, united kingdom, netherlands, poland, potato, france
Ferran Adria, culinary avant-garde
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
cooking, gastronomy, chef, interview, food, yum nyam, catalan
Sise delle Monache: no toplessness nor religion behind Abruzzo's domed cakes
Yes, you've just sunk your teeth into 'nun's tits' - albeit made of sponge and cream. The name behind this regional Italian speciality hovers between mountain peaks and nun's habits
cooking, italy, lifestyle, culture, regions, traditions, yum nyam
Lithuania's female bloggers: cooking, sex and the city
Somewhere between the 200, 000 Lithuanians in the UK and the 3 million at home, bloggers are making their own female-shaped dent in the internet universe
cooking, love, lithuania, lifestyle, lifestyle, blogs, freedom of movement
A brief history: döner kebab, fair ambassador to Turkey?
One of the most popular late night snacks in Europe is the flag bearer of Turkish cuisine outside of Turkey. Is this a source of pride or sorrow for the Turks? Plus, a recipe for green beans in olive oil
cooking, recipe, eat, stamboul, central and eastern europe, traditions, turkey
Recap: 'Brigitte', Germany's approach to 'normal' models
No-one wants to see big girls, according to fashion tsar Karl Lagerfeld, a vehement defender of the Size Zero Model. While all of Europe discusses the dress sizes of the fashion world, the German women’s magazine Brigitte has turned the whole question on its head with their new ‘Initiative Ohne Models’ (Initiative: No Models), where its the readers who get to try on the haute couture
cooking, clothing, fashion week, anorexia, health, lifestyle, germany
Cocoa bean: Europe’s favourite vice
Earlier this year, the Brits went into a panic when it was announced that American food giant Kraft was going to take over the British Cadbury’s. Childhood, chocolate and cocoa in Britain and France
cooking, recipe, latin america, chocolate, cadbury, france, yum nyam
Once upon a pizza
On 4 February, the EU paid homage to Neapolitan pizza by designating its trademark status. Yet when we eat a margherita, does it mean we're also paying homage to the three colours of the Italian flag? Behind this round piece of bread and staple in European diets lies the story of kings, queens and Italy
Devouring Sigrid Verbert, a Belgian food blogger in Italy
It's not just scrumptious cuisine and pretty photos in a book. Its pages won't just dunk you into Italy, Belgium or Germany, but inside Europe good and proper. Just as gastronomic traditions mix and merge, 'il Cavoletto di Bruxelles' constructs tastier realities
Spain, Denmark and Romania 'fat tax' for citizens
One popular New Year's resolution is to eat less unhealthy food. Although this tends to be a personal decision, at the start of 2010 the three EU countries are discussing ways to slim down their citizens - or at least swell their coffers
cooking, taxation, presse, tax, society, gastronomy, yum nyam
