The Guardian examines British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's offer "to help some of the world's poorest countries to make healthcare free - starting with pregnant women and children - in a push to widen access to doctors across Africa and Asia.
Have you ever eaten a record breaker? Does size inevitably compromise quality, or does the sheer spectacle make up for any shortcomings?Drum roll, please.Word of Mouth has just witnessed, and tasted, the world's largest cupcake. Oh yes.And boy, what a cupcake: a giant, gleeful creamy splodge comprising masses of vanilla sponge stuffed with buttercream topped with a thick wad of pink-and-white ici
World's oldest mother dies at 69
Posted by donny_blitz 130 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk)
A Spanish woman who became the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth to twins in 2006 at the age of 66 has died.
Osaka - the world's greatest food city
Posted by edwina 132 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
There are at least a dozen very good reasons why author and blogger Michael Booth rates Osaka number one. Which city would you rate your gourmet great?Simple question: what's the most greatest, most exciting, most dynamic food city in the world today, the culinary It City of our age? Paris is past it (going to a restaurant shouldn't be like going to church). London isn't quite there yet (where's
What's the world's worst recipe? Tim Hayward needs to know
Posted by edwina 145 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Elizabeth David thought she'd found it. Can you do worse?One of the best parts of this job is the opportunity of hockling through old books. Like Catlily I'm an unrepentant bibliophile so I couldn't resist a another chance to go to the Guildhall Library to rifle through Elizabeth David's personal collection for today's piece in G2.This time, rather than concentrating on the books themselves I was
Other countries and cultures have a lot to teach us about eating right.
Is the 'world's best' coffee worth it?
Posted by edwina 187 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
This year's crop of Esmeralda Special fetched $117.50 a pound at auction yesterday. Is any gourmet taste experience really worth paying 100 times more for than usual?I thought it would be like watching paint dry, but yesterday's online auction of Esmeralda Special from Panama – billed as "the world's best coffee" and eventually fetching $117.50 (£76) a pound – gave me palpitations. First, that wa
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