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Cooking demonstration for Hakka food lovers
APPROXIMATELY 70 women and a few men were treated to a live demonstration on cooking the minty Hakka dish known as Lei Cha (pounded tea) at a Mother’s Day celebration last Sunday.

'Grow, Cook, Eat' for aspiring gardeners, cooks
These days the news is full of food trends. Most of them, including eating locally, eating more healthfully, eating organic food and vegetarianism, encourage us to use fresh ingredients - advice that leads us into the...

Kitchen Call: Make a sandwich with international flair
Tired of plain old ham and cheese on wheat bread? How about a Cuban or a bahn mi?

Salads of the Middle East
Salads are a perennial feature on Middle Eastern tables, both complementing a mezze spread and thrilling palates in their own right.

Tea party recipes to complete a day of elegance
Simple, yummy teatime nibbles.

True Brit: The Independent's Mark Hix celebrates a decade creating classic recipes
String up the bunting, bake a cake and marinate the herrings in cider (in the fridge, for about five days); Mark Hix, the man from the Jurassic Coast with a highly evolved taste for the foraged, the cured, the well-hung and – above all – the British, is celebrating 10 years as The Independent's resident chef. Appearing every week in these pages, the Dorset foodie has devised as many as 2,000 ...