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Keen to find out just what makes Peruvian cuisine unique? Here are some of the key ingredients and dishes.

A fabulous dressing can spice up the plainest salad. Here are five tried-and-tested recipes that are a step up from a classic vinaigrette.

Regularly eating omega 3-rich fish enhances everything from our cardiovascular to brain health. Here are six tasty options to please your palate.

It sounds like the stuff of dreams – a top chef serves a luxurious gourmet menu to selected guests on a remote island, elevating it to an art form. But all is not as tasty as it seems...

Nothing says 'summer' quite like juicy, ripe strawberries. This versatile red fruit makes a perfect dessert as well as a great addition to savoury dishes.

Love the mellow sweetness of balsamic vinegar? Read on to find out what makes traditional Balsamic Vinegar unique!

Fresh salads are healthy, satisfying meals on their own as well as perfect accompaniments to main dishes. Here are our best recipes.

No self-respecting cook would work without a good knife – and our incisive guide has everything you need to know about the world of steel blades.

A bit baffled by whether you should be using a cleaver, carving or chef's knife? Here's our quick primer on different kinds of kitchen knives.

Top Colombian chef Leonor Espinosa stands out for her groundbreaking culinary work and has now won 'The World's 50 Best Female Chef Award'.

To mark World Baking Day, we present ten delicious cake, dessert and pastry recipes from our archives. Turn that oven on and get cooking!

A Lemon Swiss Roll and Amaretti Trifle recipe has been crowned the winner of the Platinum Pudding Competition in UK held to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee.

Police in Austria are hunting a cheese-loving thief who made off with eight slabs weighing 400kg from a warehouse in Tyrol.

Rhubarb may be considered a vegetable, but for connoisseurs it is the first eagerly awaited fruit of spring. Here are our favourite recipes that reveal its sweetest side.

Fancy going upmarket with your Marmite on toast? Marmite has released a new truffle flavour in the UK, billed as its poshest spread yet.