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Food and Drink

Venezuela's daily humble corn-bread "arepa" conquers the world

From the streets of Caracas to trendy eateries in New York, Paris and Tokyo: the arepa, a humble cornmeal flatbread, is riding a wave of Venezuelan emigration and feeding a craving for exotic and gluten-free food.

16/06/2023

Eco-Innovation

This solar oven is cutting costs and bakery emissions in Lebanon

Did you know you can power an oven with the heat of the sun?

23/04/2023

France

Bakers demand more assistance from government

Soaring energy prices have hit French bakers hard and on Monday they marched across Paris to demand more assistance from the government.

23/01/2023

Food and Drink

What should you ask a baker before buying a baguette in France?

French food critic and "La recette" podcast host Julie Van Ossel believes the UN's culture agency has erred by giving the baguette special status because, more often than not, what goes inside is no cause for celebration.

18/12/2022

Food and Drink

Second to naan: UNESCO adds French baguette to cultural heritage list

The baguette has (finally) been inducted into the UNESCO World Heritage List and officially inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

30/11/2022

Food and Drink

Turkey arrests union head for calling bread-eating societies "stupid"

Cihan Kolivar, chairman for the Union for Bread Producers in Turkey, had been speaking to the Haberturk news channel about the rising price of bread in the country.

09/11/2022

Food and Drink

May the dough be with you: Han Solo gets baked

A bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the Star Wars character “Pan Solo”

19/10/2022

Europe News

The rise and rise of Europe's bread prices amid the war in Ukraine

Hungary has been the worst hit - it saw a huge 65.5% rise over the year, while France, famous for its baguettes, has seen the slowest growth in prices.

21/09/2022

No Comment

Long queues at Beirut bakeries as Lebanon bread crisis continues

Long lines form in front of bakeries and supermarkets in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

27/07/2022

Europe News

Belgium bakers struggle to make ends meet as flour prices soar

Arnaud Szalies says flour prices have risen by 30% in three weeks. Experts warn this could only be the beginning.

10/03/2022

No Comment

Desperate Afghans queue for free bread

The free bread distribution launched on Saturday is part of the "Save Afghans from Hunger" campaign organised by a university professor in Kabul.

18/01/2022

France

French pain ahead? Bakers could knead to raise their baguette prices

The price hike fears are linked to a 30% worldwide increase since September in the price of wheat — one of the baguette's key ingredients — after bad harvests in Russia and Canada,

28/10/2021

Syria

Syrian families struggle to get bread during wheat crisis

Syrians say they are forced to bake bread at home amid a severe wheat crisis.

08/10/2021

People

Here’s where you can find the best baguette in Paris

An undocumented immigrant has claimed the title of best baguette in Paris.

03/10/2021

France

France submits the baguette for UNESCO world heritage status

The Ministry for Culture said its decision is to protect traditional savoir-faire as the number of bakeries across France has significantly decreased over the past decades.

27/03/2021

United Kingdom

Flour power: Old mill restarted as lockdown baking sparks more knead

A 1,000-year-old water mill has resumed commercial production to meet the rising demand for flour during the coronavirus pandemic.

11/05/2020

World

Grain-wave: London bakery broadcasts free lessons during lockdown

Is this the Great Online Bake-off? Tens of thousands dust off their aprons and tune into the bread boffins from London. Classes so far have included step-by-step guides for doughnuts, pretzels and sourdough bread.

10/04/2020

Living

The revival of an elite bread from Sicily

We travel to ‘Italy's Barn’ where Tumminia is having a momentum

07/03/2019