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Wareing outcooks 'stretched' Ramsay

For more than a decade, Marcus Wareing was Gordon Ramsay's publicity-shy "shadow", toiling over the stove for up to 18 hours a day to meet the exacting kitchen standards set by his motormouth boss.
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Inside Food & Drink

160 jobs boost as two restaurants open in city

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

An international ‘casual dining’ company said today it would be creating 160 jobs with the opening of two restaurants in Belfast.
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Water selling for €45 a bottle in Dublin

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

It's the ultimate in designer water, it’s called ‘Bling H2O’ and it’s for sale in an Irish supermarket chain - for just €45 a bottle
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Cocaine – the drink – goes on sale

Monday, 25 August 2008

A controversial energy drink called Cocaine, marketed as 'The legal alternative' to the drug, was on sale yesterday, despite pledges by Keith Vaz, the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee to halt its arrival in the UK.
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Credit munch: History of the hamburger

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Eating a hamburger every day for two weeks produces strange effects. I don't mean the physical deterioration graphically recorded in Morgan Spurlock's documentary Super Size Me about the effects of consuming Big Macs and fries for 30 days on the trot (he put on 11.1 kilos).
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Jenny Bristow’s lunch to support elderly

Thursday, 21 August 2008

Northern Ireland’s answer to Delia Smith and Age Concern are raising awareness of the isolation felt by pensioners.
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Looking good and feeling good may be easier than you think.

How to look well, feel well and live well

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Getting to grips with a change in lifesyle may not be as difficult as you think. Don't worry, help is at hand...
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Groceries shrink as firm try to claw back costs

Tuesday, 12 August 2008

The size of some the UK's best-loved products has been secretly shrunk without any reduction in price, as manufacturers desperately try to claw back soaring inflationary costs.
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Salmonella outbreak is linked to Subway

Saturday, 9 August 2008

A fatal salmonella outbreak across the British Isles that has infected 90 people may be linked to sandwiches sold by Subway.
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Arcachon Bay oysters banned after health scare

Saturday, 9 August 2008

In another blow to the beleaguered French shellfish industry, authorities have banned for up to two weeks the sale and consumption of oysters from the beautiful Arcachon Bay in south-western France.
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Tracy Mearns is an avid fan of her allotment and growing her own organic food

What a lotta fun growing your own fruit and veg

Friday, 8 August 2008

Having an allotment and growing your own fruit and vegetables is the latest trend to sweep the nation. Ahead of National Allotments Week next week, Judith Cole talks to green fingered devotees.
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Row brewing in Ireland over the cost of beer

Friday, 8 August 2008

A row is brewing between Irish farmers and suppliers of malt -- a key ingredient in beer and stout -- over the price.
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Spiced tomato chutney has a distinct yet mildly bitter edge.

The Ten Best Chutneys

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Spice up your life with our choice of chutneys
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Salmonella outbreak warning

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Food safety experts were last night trying to trace the source of an outbreak of a new strain of salmonella that has spread throughout the British Isles.
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The electronic tongue with a taste for fine wine

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Can't tell the difference between paint stripper and a 1982 Château Pétrus? Well, scientists have developed a remedy: an "electronic tongue" that can distinguish between grape varieties and vintages.
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Gary Vaynerchuk: The wine world's new superstar

Monday, 4 August 2008

Gary Vaynerchuk swills, spits, pauses. Adopts a thinking pose, breaks a grin. Pauses some more. Then, thumps the table. Hard.
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Organic food becomes latest casualty of the credit crunch

Monday, 4 August 2008

Dairy farmers are turning their backs on Britain's organic milk market as economic pessimism dents consumers' previously buoyant demand for organic produce. The organic goods market at large is being "credit crunched", particularly among new products like organic ready meals and home-delivery vegetable boxes.
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Humble shrew can drink us all under the table

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Binge-drinking Brits in Faliraki could learn from the pen-tailed tree shrew of Malaysia, which scientists have discovered can absorb large quantities of alcohol without showing any obvious signs of intoxication.
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Knives out as Wareing turns on his culinary mentor Ramsay

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Gordon Ramsay was best man at his wedding, but the celebrity chef's friendship with his most successful protégé, Marcus Wareing, is definitely over.
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Wine: Red-hot Chile

Saturday, 26 July 2008

July's first light dusting of white over the Andes signals a change of season in Chile. And with the snow comes the guarantee of irrigation for next summer's vintage from the snowmelt waters from the mountains. And thanks to the supply of mountain water, Chile isn't so crippled by drought as is the case in its New World "competitor" Australia.
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Heading Out In Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Nightlife in Pictures

World in Pictures: August 2008

  • A Pakistani model wears a creation of a local designer S. Arshad Hussain, highlighting the jewelry, during a fashion show in Karachi, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Hussain says he wants to revive the golden fashions of the late 50s when the local fashion was liberal and progressive. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
  • Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama kisses his wife, Michelle Obama, after giving his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
  • Madonna performs on stage at the first German concert of her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Stunning images from around the world

Belfast Telegraph foursomes

  • Ballymena GC Team Paul Mark and Tim Patton with Club Orange manager Denise Catney and personality girl Linzi Corr
  • Loughall GC Team David Chawick and Jason Wilson
  • Magee Island Match and Handicap Secretary Trevor Geddis drives from the 10th tee

Photographs from the tournament

In Pictures: Flooding Northern Ireland

  • A car abandoned on the Westlink Road is seen at the junction with the M1 Motorway in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008. Severe flooding swept across Northern Ireland Saturday after torrential rain.
  • This bike fan was unconcerned about the bad weather which led to the Ulster Grand Prix being cancelled
  • A bridge is swept away as the River Straid burst its banks at Nursery Road in Ballymena on Saturday afternoon

Wet and wild photographs from around Ulster

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Olympics closing ceremony

  • A general view showing the Olympic flame during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China.
  • A general view showing the Olympic flame during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China
  • Performers are seen during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 24, 2008 in Beijing, China

Spectacular show closes 2008 Games

Yell-bow: Hungarian weightlifter's terrifying elbow injury

  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
  •  Janos Baranyai of Hungary competes in the weightlifting event at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Janos Baranyai dislocates elbow in competition

Beach boy Bush at the Olympics

  • U.S. President George Bush watches a practice as U.S player Kerri Walsh warms up at the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008.
  • U.S. President George Bush watches as U.S. team of Misty May Treanor, left, and Kerri Walsh warm up at the Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008.
  • President Bush gestures toward the back of Misty May Treanor as he visits the practice of the U.S. beach volleyball team the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. At right is Treanor's teammate Kerri Walsh.

US President finds time for some volleyball fun

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War in the Caucasus

  • Russian armored vehicles enter a tunnel, moving toward the border with Russia's North Ossetia, 70 km (43 miles) north of Tskhinvali, the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia's capital, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Russia pulled the bulk of its troops and tanks from Georgia on Friday after a brief but intense war but built up its forces in and around two separatist regions and left other positions deeper in the former Soviet republic.
  • Smoke rises from a fire in the Georgian village of Kekhvi, some 15 km (9 miles) north of Tskhinvali, in Georgia's breakway province of South Ossetia on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008. Many ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia and Georgia have been looted and burned down after Russian troops entered Georgia.
  • Fire fighters extinguish a fire on a train carrying oil products after it hit a mine about 10 km (6 miles) east of Georgia's strategic central city of Gori on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008. Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said the blast hit near the end of the train and one third of its 30 tanker cars were on fire.

A conflict in pictures

Columnist Comments

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Robert Fisk: Why do we keep letting the politicians get away with lies?

How on earth do they get away with it? Let's start with war between Hizbollah and Israel – past and future war, that is.

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Lindy McDowell: Ulster-Scots Hillbillies may shape US politics

This week a television report about how the voters in the Appalachia region of the US could be crucial in swinging the US presidential election threw out some interesting facts. One of them dental.

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David Healy: Liverpool set to raise their Standard

I know Liverpool fans were disappointed with their side’s performance against Standard Liege in the Champions League in midweek.

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Victoria Brown: My husband has been kidnapped and sent to prison in Mexico

Recent readers of my husband Cooper's column will undoubtedly know that he was having some problems with the immigration authorities here in the United Kingdom.

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Eamonn McCann: What if Mormons are right and Catholics and Protestants wrong?

Why are the Catholic bishops so concerned about Mormons baptising dead parishioners? The Mormons didn’t invent baptism of the dead. The practice has a significant history within mainstream Christianity. The decision to order its abandonment was taken only after heated debate, and was a close-run thing.

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Frances Burscough: I ran as far as I could but Bolt still caught up with me in end

There was only one place on earth to be last week as the athlete Usain Bolt bolted his way to triumph at the Olympic Games. And it wasn’t Beijing.|On the other side of the world, the entire island of Jamaica was cheering and toasting and singing and dancing ... and I was there, slap, bang in the middle of it all joining in the celebrations even though 24 hours earlier I’d never even heard of the fella.

Northern Ireland Troubles

In Pictures: The Northern Ireland Troubles

A Conflict in Pictures

Miss Universe

  •  Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza is crowned Miss Universe 2008 on stage during the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
  • Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza one of the top 15 semi finalists performs on stage during the final of the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
  • Miss Vietnam Lam Thuy Nguyen one of the top 15 semi finalists performs on stage during the final of the 57th Annual Miss Universe Competition at the Crown Convention Centre on July 14, 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

Nha Trang, Vietnam

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