Food and drink

Passion is the key word. This can be the single word to explain the success of the Roca brothers, Catalonia?s formidable trio behind the legendary El Celler de Can Roca, which was recently selected as the top restaurant in the world in the prestigious San Pellegrino list of the World?s 50 Best Restaurants. Their dedication to their work is amazing.

Two women got embroiled in a street fight at mcDonald’s in Nottingham after their takeaway got mixed up. They began to push and shove while wrestling over nuggets.

The Greek crisis has ignited a taste for feta cheese and olives, says London-based Greek businessman Panos Manuelides. His company, North London-based Odysea, offers cheese like sheep and goats’ cheese Kefalotyri that is growing in popularity in the UK day by day.

Deep purple is its color. It is often likened to dark velvet. Not that it is fuzzy. On the contrary, with a satin smooth surface, it is as shiny as polished marble. It must be the deepness of its color that makes one think of velvet. I'm talking about aubergines. In Turkish, in many cases the term "aubergine purple" is used to stress the intensity of the color purple.

A leading retail sector representative has requested a discount in value added taxes (VAT) for fruits, vegetables, red meat, legumes, bakery products and olive and olive oil products from 8 percent to 1 percent to boost the sector's growth level, create more employment and fuel consumption. 

The latest furor from “Down Under” involves a chic Sydney bar, naked women — actually, panties are seen in the pics — and a buffet table with foods and fruits placed on the … reclining women.

What ensued was a firestorm of controversy and one very, very successful promotional stunt by the proprietors.

No, it’s not a practical joke and it’s not a “shock advertisement”, it’s an actual an popular gyro shop operating on the Venice, California boardwalk named none other than “Malaka Brothers”!

A heart-warming story in Istanbul turned into a heart-breaking one for a business owner, when a local woman fed 35 Syrian refugee children before fleeing the restaurant without paying.

Producers of Turkey?s most delicious and biggest watermelon species are standing guard in their fields to prevent harm from befalling their produce ahead of next month?s watermelon ?beauty contest? in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

An Oregon cat with a fondness for sharp cheddar and catching mice has become the oldest pet feline in the world at 26 years and 13 days, Guinness World Records officials said on Aug. 13. 

Corduroy lives in the rural community of Sisters, Oregon, about 160 kilometers southeast of Portland, and spends plenty of time outside, the organization said in a statement.