English Cuisine News

Food pantries in Bergen and Passaic counties are seeing record numbers of people at their doors this year, many of them former middle-class residents who can no longer fend for themselves.

Some stereotypes I had of the British before I studied abroad in the UK turned out to be true.

Just the look of haggis is enough to put a lot of people off the delicacy. Photo / British Tourist Authority It's more than a little unfair that the deep-fried Mars Bar became a symbol of Scottish cuisine.

Chef Heston Blumenthal conducts food aroma experiments with a gas chromatograph.

The chef Heston Blumenthal, sated after a four-course meal at Shopsin's. Hubris will get you every time.

A BEAUTY queen and professional footballer joined guests to celebrate the opening of a new bar in Widnes on Saturday.

Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC, is not my personal favorite fast food chain. I prefer Wendy's or DQ for an occasional chocolate chip cookie dough milkshake, but I think London as a whole would disagree with me.

Read the latest scribblings from Oliver Cross. Let me eat cake At this time of year, with the days shortening and Christmas approaching, I like to change the subject.

Hey how about it on Top Chef ? The 11th episode on the 11th day of the 11th month? Coincidence? Tonight on the Bravo cooking show, it's back to regular programming after the "all-star dinner" last week.

The direness of English food has been the butt of many jokes, and Tom Parker Bowles aims to tread a careful middle path between this and the view of "English food as good honest fare of beautiful ingredients treated with care" in his latest book, Full English: A journey through the British and their food .

A PROFESSIONAL goalkeeper is now pulling pints in Holmes Chapel instead of catching balls.

LEE COUNTY: The 27th annual Taste of The Town brought more then 10,000 people to Centennial Park to sample dishes from more than 40 local restaurants on Sunday.

As a child, mincemeat pie was never my first choice at the holiday table, yet I was completely fascinated by it.

There seems to be food in every chapter of The Inheritance of Loss . The novel may appear to be taking on big themes a ' colonialism and its legacy, love and its limits a ' but it is attached to the small details of life.

A PUB near Uttoxeter is now offering people in the area an English alternative to the traditional takeaway.

If you are interested in cooking classes for children, Sage Culinary Studio offers classes six days a week for children ages 3 to 17.

Rollande Desbois at her home office: She's a cookbook author, cooking teacher and food writer.

In a world increasingly eaten up with chain restaurants, Tom's Deli in the Notting Hill section of London is a welcome relief to a hungry traveler.

With the news that Gordon Brown will now not be appearing side by side with David Cameron and Nick Clegg at today's Speakers Conference, it appears that the Prime Minister has bottled a simple decision once again.

I travel a lot. Talks, meetings, family events whatever the reason, I know the drive between my house and the airport as well as I know the walk from my office to the freezer where I keep ice cream sandwiches.