Life & Society: Food

Downturn dining

Observations on eating out

Diary: Zoe Williams

Celebrities, squirrels and . . . I forget

Out of the drink

Once famous for its beer, Milwaukee has recast itself as a haven for foodies. Mary Novakovich investigates

Recipes for Twitters

Why American housewives were the true pioneers of the internet, and why Virgin Media won't be sharing after all

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Heston’s new service

Observations on the lunch crunch

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The chocolate king of São Tomé

Xan Rice visits a man who has been on a quest to produce some of the finest dark chocolate in the world

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Food for thought

Two unsqueamish chefs adopt a very civilised approach to some unusual dishes
Could You Eat an Elephant?
Channel 4

That creative tension

Organic panic

The organic lobby has hampered any chance of a sensible debate over food production. That's why Zoe Williams is staging a boycott

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Where's the beef?

The Slow Food movement has an almost millenarian belief in the virtue of amalgamating gastronomy with ecology. It will take more than such utopian thinking, however, to transform Britain's woeful food culture

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