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It should be no surprise that dreams of sugar plums figure heavily into the traditional story ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Christmas isn’t just the season to be jolly, it is also the season to be greedy and gluttonous. If you are trying to watch wh...

Everyone likes to talk turkey at Christmas. Grandma swears by putting oil on her bird before cooking it and mom always tents her bird to keep in the moisture. If you are new to cooking a turkey all the advice can be disconcerting. Here are ten tips ...

The first time Robin O’Neil made a gingerbread house with her then teenage son Kevin, it proved to be a magical experience for them both. She got a recipe from online and said the holiday treat, slathered with icing sugar and tiny candies, came out ...

That author Elizabeth Mulderig just won a cooking award from a prestigious French organisation might come as a shock to those who know her, as she has a reputation for burning takeout dinners. The Gourmand Culinary Institute of France has named ‘Tiny...

Back in 1612 the Island’s settlers might have feasted on wild hogs or chowed down on cahows. It’s a bit too late to taste them now but one St George’s restaurant is offering their take on such dishes. Griffin’s Bistro at the St George’s Club is offe...

On a chilly day, nothing hits the spot quite like a bowl of warm soup, believes chef Uddav Tamang. He quickly combines onion, garlic, ginger, carrots, water and chicken bone into a simple base, then leaves it on the stove to simmer. “It cooks for a...

I love my kids. Not just in an I-love-chocolate kind of way, but in an earth-shattering, heart-stopping, life-defining way. They are absolutely the apex of my world. And they are also disgusting. I just spent an amazing weekend away with one of my o...

When the ocean liner the Queen Mary was launched in 1936 the first-class passengers drank Graham’s Six Grapes Port. When the Bermuda-registered Queen Mary II was launched in 2004 it was served to the passengers again. For hundreds of years Portuguese...

As a teenager, Carmin Viola learned an important lesson from her mother: ‘You can’t cook if you’re angry’. She was trying to bake a chocolate cake at her mother’s home bakery in the Philippines, when she noticed that her sour mood was affecting the ...