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La Maison du Chocolat's €1,500 Easter egg buys you 7kg of chocolate
This Easter, head chocolatier Nicolas Cloiseau, has chosen a space theme for La Maison du Chocolat's seasonal offering. This year's ièce de résistanceis a giant "Unidentified Flying Egg" inhabited by curious chocolaty creatures -- yours for over a thousand dollars, if you please. The Easter chocolate collection is serious business for Nicolas Cloiseau, Meilleur Ouvrier de France [Best Craftsman in France] and head chocolatier of La Maison du Chocolat. This year he has chosen a space theme with, as its centerpiece, a giant egg -- standing half a meter tall and just as wide -- which takes the fo...
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Tortilla challenge: the new sandwich breaking records on TikTok
After rainbow cake and fluffy pancakes, the "tortilla challenge" is the latest foodie fad taking the TikTok social network by storm. The trend started late December, and -- as is often the case with TikTok -- revolves around a recipe that isn't particularly complicated. This time, it's a tortilla-sandwich mashup that has sparked the internet's creativity. The idea is simple. You take a Mexican flour tortilla -- the flatbread used to make burritos -- divide it into four sections making just one slice from the edge to the center, then place four different ingredients onto it -- one in each sec...
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Viral feta pasta: The simple recipe taking social media, and old world media, by storm
A super simple recipe has been going viral worldwide. The ingredients for this global success? Tomatoes, feta cheese, olive oil and ... 40 million views. Its success is such that even highly respectable media outlets like the Wall Street Journal have taken interest in the subject. Here's a look back at how this simple baked feta pasta dish conquered the internet. Don't tell me that the cherry tomato/ feta/olive oil hype has passed you by? Where have you been? Because this most simple, unassuming of recipes has gone viral worldwide, breaking the internet in less time than it takes to flip a st...
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Tired of 'Top Chef'? Check out 'Nadiya Bakes' on Netflix
If you've had your fill of "Top Chef" but still have more appetite for food shows, then why not head over to Netflix to catch season two of "Nadiya Bakes"? A world away from the "Top Chef" judges, meet Nadiya -- she may not be all-that well-known outside the UK, but, at home, this British chef has gained quite a following. As well as being a successful TV chef, Nadiya Hussain is an author and a Times columnist, not to mention the mother of three children. So, saving time in the kitchen while cooking up delicious dishes is definitely her department. In her show now on Netflix in several interna...
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S.African wine 'paradise' finds success by going its own way
Heaven and Earth -- that is the name in Afrikaans for this valley nestled between arid mountains and the cool ocean, a location that makes it a paradise for winegrowing. Not for nothing are vineyards in Hemel en Aarde carving out a global reputation among wine lovers seeking a fresh, distinctive flavour. Winemakers here do not try to imitate the big European names, which can often be a stifling benchmark. Instead, they produce wines with a strong South African identity -- wines whose savour tells the story of their distant birthplace and bring with them the heritage from the first Huguenot pla...
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Beyond Meat signs long-term agreements with McDonald's, KFC parent
US plant-based meat substitute start-up Beyond Meat announced Thursday it has signed partnerships with fast-food giants McDonald's and Yum! Brands, the parent company for KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. The "strategic" agreements will cover a three-year period for McDonald's and "the next several years" for Yum! Brands, according to two separate statements from Beyond Meat. Beyond Meat will be the main supplier for the patty in the McPlant, the plant-based burger currently in testing phase in McDonald's restaurants around the world. The two companies, which have worked together since 2019, also ...
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Jay-Z sells half his champagne brand to LVMH
LVMH, the world's biggest luxury goods company, said on Monday it had agreed to buy 50 percent of Armand de Brignac, the champagne brand owned by rapper Jay-Z. The company said the purchase -- for an undisclosed sum and made through its Moet Hennessy drinks division -- also involved a distribution deal and would kick off a partnership reflecting a "shared vision" between the singer and the company. Jay-Z's champagne brand, known informally as Ace of Spades, had been "a fantastic success", Moet Hennessy CEO Philippe Schaus said in a joint statement with Jay-Z. "Armand de Brignac breaks barriers...
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Cooking collective helps Mexican women escape abuse
On the outskirts of Mexico City, a group of women prepare tortillas in a community kitchen that has provided sanctuary from gender violence and the economic fallout of the pandemic. While one lights the stove, others grind corn, knead dough and wash vegetables. The Latin American country, long beset by a culture of machismo, is in the grips of a femicide crisis with 10 women murdered every day. The pandemic, and the confinement it forced on them, has been a wake-up call for some women facing abuse at home. The members of the Mujeres de la Tierra (Women of the Land) cooperative now sell tortill...
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Market for edible flowers blossoms in Tunisia
A Tunisian entrepreneur growing edible flowers says she is surprised by the appetite for her homegrown product in the North African country and hopes to see a "new culinary culture" bloom. Sonia Ibidhi, a 42-year-old journalist, turned to organic farming of the niche but in-demand product "out of love" for working on the land. Among the flowers she grows are borage, a blue star-shaped flower that tastes like cucumber, chive flowers -- purple blossoms with a flavour similar to onion -- and nasturtiums, bright yellow to orange flowers with a radish-like taste. "I thought the flowers would be for...
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Sotheby's to auction Peter Blake-labeled Macallan bottle
A one-of-the-kind bottle of whisky: Sotheby's will offer in March a 1967 vintage bottle of the Macallan single-malt whisky, which was created in collaboration with British artist Sir Peter Blake. This lot comes from The Macallan's newly launched "Anecdotes of Ages Collection," which celebrates the legacy and history of Blake and The Macallan through 13 unique bottles of 1967 whisky. Art enthusiasts are probably familiar with Sir Peter Blake, whose collage-style art ended up on the cover of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. Each bottle in the collection features an or...
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