Offal

You know those places that we dream of making the Michelin list? One such restaurant is Kasap Fuat (Butcher Fuat) in İzmir, a one-of-a-kind family-run enterprise that concentrates on the essence of flavor with high-quality, locally sourced ingredients and proper cooking techniques.

Dressed in tracksuits with their sleeves rolled up, about 30 residents in Tajura, a suburb east of Libya's capital Tripoli, volunteer every day to cook and give away some 300 meals during Ramadan.

As of last Friday, December 1, the zero VAT rate on meat and vegetables, categorized under specific customs tariff codes, has come into effect in Cyprus. The measure, outlined in a Council of Ministers decree dated November 17, applies to various meat and vegetable products, promoting accessibility to essential food items.

The Household Basket is a successful measure that, in combination with the Market Pass, has helped to lower inflation, Development and Investment Minister Adonis Georgiadis asserted in a press conference held on Wednesday.

Only 30% of the pork we buy is produced in Bulgaria, according to statistics.

Producers warn that pig farming is threatened by mass bankruptcies because the purchase price of pork is lower than the price per kilogram of cucumbers, and the state is neglecting the sector.

An increasing number of customers prefer to buy offal, which is a much cheaper form of red meat, shopkeepers at the Butcher's Market in Turkey's southern province of Adana have said.

SOFIA, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- As many as 54 sheep have died after a brown bear attack in a farm in the Rhodope Mountain in Bulgaria, the authorities said Friday.

The incident occurred on the night of Thursday to Friday in a farm in the village of Malevo, 200 km southeast of Sofia, the Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water (RIEW) said in a statement on its website.

The Sanitary authorities of the Russian Federation imposed restrictions on the import of live pigs and pig meat products from the whole territory of Bulgaria, local media reported.

A Greek-Egyptian man who died suddenly while visiting southern China has helped save several critically ill Chinese patients after his family agreed to donate his organs, it emerged on Saturday.

The biggest fried lamb liver in the world has started to be prepared, the mayor of the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne said on May 8.