"Eat for the Body, not for the Mouth"...Why Chinese Women Don't Get Fat?

Honestly when I first noticed Why the Chinese don't count calories a new book by Lorraine Clissold (actually her first), I could not help but think of it as a Chinese riff on Why French women don't get fat. Sophie Morris (The Independent) offers her take on the ideas...

Is Eating Dog Stew in Seoul with Tom Parker-Bowles part of your New Year's Re...

Is Eating Dog Stew in Seoul part of your New Year's Resolutions, will you discover Zen or Live Dangerously. New Year's resolutions have now become an industry. David Bodanis offers a few books (not all that new) who fit that trend in Glorious Resolutions (FT Week-End).

Long-Winded & Overrated Menus: Monsieur Bourdain chops the nonsense

In a Short and not so Sweet column for Radar Online, Anthony Bourdain chops the nonsense out of long-winded and overrated menus.  Amongst the things that irritate him is repetition (truffle oil everywhere), using ingredients that once where innovative (mango chutney by...

Sexy people play the symmetry card

"Balance, not body type, is key in fashion and attraction To call sexiness an exact science is a stretch, but there is certainly a formula, says fashion designer Bradley Bayou. Measurements have nothing to do with it. It’s about symmetry. “What we are attracted to, what...

'No good chef would put on anything he could not eat' ...Bruce Poole and Menu...

Being a me too does not cut it, love what you cook and do it well and share your taste and passion with others tells us Bruce Poole.

Hot Sex Trends Worth Trying

"We cornered some of the leading sexperts in the country and asked them to divulge the new naughty, naughty things more and more people are sampling in the sack. The following five carnal crazes they turned us on to aren't fads that will phase out faster than jelly bracelets;...