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Storm-battered and abandoned in winter, Sweden’s harbor-side restaurants come alive in the summer. But two million boat lovers’ thirst for good food and seaside relaxation means tough work for the seasonal restaurant owners.

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World Ice cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products, such as cream (or substituted ingredients), combined with flavorings and sweeteners, such as sugar. In the fifth century BC, ancient Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of Athens. Persians, having mastered the storage of ice, ate ice cream well into summer. Roman emperor Nero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. Today’s ice treats likely originated with these early ice delicacies. But at some point, the world of ice cream...

The Bohus county lobster has one, as does the oyster. Now the humble shrimp has one too - its own academy. The institute will have the remit of spreading knowledge about the little sea beast's splendid qualities. reported local newspaper Bohusläningen. Strömstad will be the home of the academy. It was from here that Sweden's first commercial shrimp trawler departed at the beginning of the last century. Today the industry is worth more than 100 million kronor a year. The academy will be inaugurated on the Shrimp Day, July 21st. The board of the academy will consist of 12 people....

Source: Smithsonian Date: July 9, 2007 Ancient Americans Liked It Hot: Mexican Cuisine Traced To 1,500 Years Ago Science Daily — One of the world's tastiest and most popular cuisines, Mexican food also may be one of the oldest. These chili peppers from the Guila Naquitz cave in Oaxaca Mexico date to between A.D. 490 and 780, and represent two cultivars or cultivated types. A Smithsonian scientist analyzed the chili pepper remains and determined that Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the region hundreds of years ago enjoyed a spicy fare similar to Mexican cuisine today. (Credit: Linda Perry, Smithsonian Institution) Plant remains...

Increasing food imports from China could pose a risk to public health in Sweden, according to the food products governing body. During the first five months of the year, Sweden's National Food Administration (Livsmedelsverket) was made aware of 138 cases within the EU of food imported from China that was not fit for consumption. By the same time last year the figure had reached 88. Examples included food containing banned colouring, antibiotics, preservatives or pesticides. There were also cases of illegally imported, unclean or foul-smelling food, as well as products with high levels of heavy metals, poisonous mould and dioxins,...

It's official - our nation has gone cuisine crazy. A new little Thai restaurant opened up just round the corner. It's one of those more traditional authentic Thai restaurants, with the traditional authentic Thai decor, and the traditional authentic Thai pun-based name - it was something like Bow Thai, or Thai-Tanic, or it may have been Thai Me Kangaroo Down Sport. Anyway, it looked pretty good, and we were pretty hungry, so we popped down to get some takeaway. We ordered a green curry and a red curry, and also a brown curry, which is probably just the red curry...

(Hong Kong)--Four Hong Kong men sentenced to jail for slaughtering and eating two dogs launched an appeal of their sentence Friday. The men, aged 40 to 49, were sentenced to 30 days in December after pleading guilty to killing and cooking two mongrel dogs that had been raised by one of the men. At the hearing, they claimed that eating dogs was part of Chinese culture, but their argument was rejected by the magistrate, who said men and dogs had a bond of friendship that should not be abused. At the appeal Friday, their defence counsel asked the court to...

As France goes to the polls many agree that change is vital to tackle the slowing economy and growing public debt. But they also want to keep the best of what makes the country so distinctive... so French. Earlier this spring, I found myself in the small sleepy Burgundy town of Donzy at one o'clock and very much looking forward to a solid French lunch. The pale sunshine beat down on the main square, giving the honey-coloured stone a golden tinge. On the narrow cobbled main street was a host of cafes, their blinds shading the tables outside. For once,...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2007 – TV cooking-show icon Emeril Lagasse offered a culinary salute to the military Friday when he filmed two episodes of “Emeril Live” featuring servicemembers and their winning recipes. “Emeril’s Army-Navy Cookoff” and “Emeril’s Military Contest,” filmed at the Food Network studios in the Chelsea Market building, will air on June 29 and 30, respectively Lagasse went looking for a few good recipes last fall and found them through a military-only cooking contest. “I was so impressed with the creativity from all ranks, from every branch of the service,” Lagasse said of the hundreds of recipes...

SAN FERNANDO DE APURE, Venezuela ? As dusk fell on the tropical wetland crawling with iguanas and small crocodilian caimans, Jos? Ismael Jim?nez pointed his harpoon at a rodent about the size of a Labrador retriever. With aim that comes from years of practice, he landed his spear on the back of its head. Farmhands turned hunters stalking the wild capybara, reputedly the world?s largest rodent, on Saturday on Hato Santa Luisa. One of them hurled a harpoon at a wounded capybara. The meat is then salted and dried. But this hunt was not about ridding the country?s southern plains...

Vietnamese women sell roast dog at a streetcorner market in Hanoi in this January 5, 2006 file photo. Dogs, bats, Kentucky Fried Chicken and barramundi will grace dinner tables across the Asia Pacific this Christmas, a festival celebrated with lots of cheer, and very little turkey, in this mainly non-Christian region. (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters) SINGAPORE, Dec 22 (Reuters Life!) - Dogs, bats, Kentucky Fried Chicken and barramundi will grace dinner tables across the Asia Pacific this Christmas, a festival celebrated with lots of cheer, and very little turkey, in this mainly non-Christian region. Christmas Day is seen as a foreign,...

Let 'em eat foie gras, they declare Almost 4 months after ban, a number of restaurants appear to be dishing up the delicacy with impunity By Josh Noel Tribune staff reporter December 21, 2006 NOTE: This story contains corrected material, published Dec. 22, 2006. When the letter came from City Hall threatening punishment if he continued to serve foie gras at his North Side restaurant, Doug Sohn framed the warning and set it beside his cash register. And he kept serving the fattened duck liver without a care. "We displayed it proudly," said Sohn, owner of Hot Doug's, a gourmet...

Taste of the Ukraine: Classic sauerkraut dish is simmered in culture By Mat Schaffer Wednesday, September 13, 2006 When Tania Vitvitsky is making bigos, you smell it as soon as you walk through the front door. This classic sauerkraut and pork stew announces itself with a distinctive pungent aroma that portends its bold, tart flavors. “I grew up eating Ukrainian food,” said Vitvitsky, executive director of Sabre Foundation, a Cambridge-based organization that distributes donated books to developing countries. “But I warn you, this is a cross-cultural dish, and some people consider it Polish. My parents are from a part of...

A survey by coffee makers Percol reveals a change in the UK's drinking habits. Once tea was the dominant drink in the UK. Now coffee reigns supreme. As an extension of our new found foodie-status the average UK household stocks three different varieties of coffee. Expenditure on coffee overtook tea back in 1998 and has continued to rise since then. People in London and the South East are more likely to have more varieties of coffee in their home. The study also revealed that over two thirds of kitchens stocked ground beans. Origin is increasingly important as is fairtrade branding....

U.S forces in Iraq suspect that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, has fled to Iran. Iraq's intelligence services have received information that the Jordanian-born terrorist was spotted in areas close to the Himreen Mountains, 75 miles south of Kirkuk and near the border with Iran. Adu Humpmahn, press secretary for al-Qaeda acknowledged that Zarqawi has gone to Iran, but denied that he had “fled” Iraq. “We are winning in Iraq,” said Humpmahn. “Why would Zarqawi flee?” “Zarqawi is merely taking a break while he plans even mightier blows against the American Crusaders,” said Humpmahn. “Zarqawi will be...

Lady Claire insists she loves good food, but prefers to call a potato a potato. Picture: Julie Bull   Why Her Ladyship calls a spud a spud LAURA ROBERTS WOULD madam care for some purée of petit pois and hand-cut pomme frites to accompany her confit of ground lamb encased in a baked pastry shell? If the diner concerned is the Scottish aristocrat and culinary expert Lady Claire Macdonald, the answer would be an emphatic No - though she would not object to peas and chips with her pie. The award-winning cookery writer yesterday said pretentious restaurateurs who serve...

Take one soup cube, pepper, salt and onions, not forgetting chunks of monkey, head included. Cook in a casserole and serve. At the restaurant "Maman Marie Gibier (game)" in Libreville, the dish will set appreciative diners back 2.80 dollars. "I have been eating monkey since I was little," said Sandra, 28, who works for a bank. But she draws the line at great ape meat. "Gorillas, they look like people. You can't eat that. It's horrible." Her colleague Jean is less fastidious. "Monkey meat, big or small, it's all the same once it's in the bowl." It is uncommon to...

The Doody family hope to raise profile of faggotsA West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish - faggots. The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week. The family will be touring the country extolling the virtues of the dish, which is best-known for its links with the Black Country. The Doody family were chosen to front the campaign after impressing judges at the Savoy Hotel in London in...

LONDON (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac's low opinion of British cuisine, which he reportedly dubbed the worst in Europe after Finland, has started a food fight with London and sparked the wrath of Britain's press. London's newspapers, which regularly take offense at the French, lashed out at Chirac's jokes on the nation's cuisine. "A man full of bile is not fit to pronounce on food," food critic Egon Ronay was quoted as saying in a front-page story in The Guardian. The French newspaper Liberation reported Monday that Chirac had made the insulting remarks about food in London during a...

Chirac Opens His Big Mouth Again