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On Monday, some 4000 gastronauts will converge on the French coastal resort of Deauville for a two-day food festival called Omnivore. The fifth edition of this annual gathering will feature [...]

ROME Though there's no such thing here as dining 'al fresco', writes Guy Dinmore, the FT's correspondent in Rome, (actually, it's Italian slang for being in jail), you can eat [...]

It was towards the end of our conversation, when Rohini Dey casually mentioned that she had recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to celebrate her 40th birthday, that I finally experienced the [...]

As America's sixth largest city, Philadelphia cannot exactly be called a small pond. But its restaurant scene has always been relatively quiet and its close proximity to New York has [...]

Among its many ill effects, the global economic slowdown is having devastating consequences for the restaurant industry. It is not a little ironic, then, that New York's Four Seasons is [...]

The Arizona Cardinals will tomorrow make their first Super Bowl appearance. Arizona's improbable run to the National Football League title game, which takes place in Tampa and will see them [...]

The Australian Open, which begins on Monday, is notoriously difficult to forecast, coming as it does so early in the tennis season. Yet it is not courting embarrassment to suggest [...]

If, last year at this time, a person had stood on a Manhattan street corner with a megaphone and declared that come the second week of January 2009, the New [...]

The PGA Tour opens its 2009 season next week with the Mercedes-Benz Championship in Hawaii. Tiger Woods, still recovering from reconstructive knee surgery, will not be there. Nor will Barack [...]

General Motors announced this week that it was ending its sponsorship deal with Tiger Woods, one that reportedly paid the world's number one golfer more than $7m annually. In a [...]

Sommeliers do lots of things with their leisure time; cooking for the chefs who employ them is not usually among those things. But on a recent Sunday afternoon, New York's [...]

When celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay opened his eponymous restaurant in New York's the London NYC Hotel in late 2006, he was greeted with an outpouring of ennui : local critics [...]

The National Hockey League seems to lose even when it wins. This year's Stanley Cup final, pitting the Calgary Flames against the Tampa Bay Lightning, had the look of a [...]

Controversy is the one constant in college football. A week ago on Saturday, the University of Oklahoma lost its final regular season game and, with it, the number one ranking, [...]

The steroid scandal generating screaming headlines in Europe has barely produced a ripple on the other side of the Atlantic. The lack of interest can be partly attributed to the [...]

The women's football World Cup opened in the United States on Saturday under a pall. Earlier in the week, the Women's United Soccer Association, the world's pre-eminent women's professional league, [...]

The good news is that the David Beckham saga is drawing headlines even in the soccer-allergic US. The bad news is that the story is doing nothing to make the [...]

Leek tarts with carrot syrup. Eggplant crepes. Artichoke parfaits. Smoked bacon and egg ice cream. Chocolate fondants with avocado risotto. Black-truffle roasted banana milkshakes. Feeling nauseous yet? Welcome to the [...]

Texas is known for many things; progressive politics is not one of them. Yet, the Lone Star State has shown itself to be admirably forward-thinking, even radical, when it comes [...]