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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 [...]

BY MIKE STEINBERGER Eyes that cannot be seen cannot give anything away. Although the wrap-around sunglasses that David Duval wears while on the golf course serve a practical function - [...]

To the casual observer, the Ryder Cup emits the same musty aroma as Wimbledon. Perhaps because the sport is golf and the matches are played in England half the time, [...]

The postponement of last year's event and its causes are likely to signal an end to the unsavoury hostilites of previous matches BY MIKE STEINBERGER The day that changed the [...]

Capping the most improbable and dramatic championship of his glorious career, Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi in four sets last night to win his fifth US Open title and a [...]

Even in the age of Tiger Woods, trying to predict golf is a fool's errand, but two assumptions can safely be made about the season's first major, the Masters, which [...]

The Invincible versus the Improbable. That, on paper at least, is how this year's Super Bowl shapes up. By the time the St Louis Rams and the New England Patriots [...]

Evander Holyfield gave John Ruiz a boxing lesson in Saturday night's World Boxing Association heavyweight title bout. The judges, meanwhile, gave boxing fans yet another reason to look elsewhere for [...]

The first time glory, the second time farce? Tragedy? No, perhaps just frustration. Michael Jordan is back. Apparently, smoking cigars, playing golf, and fetching the kids from school proved too [...]

It is amazing what you can accomplish with a dollar and a dream. But it is even more amazing what you can accomplish with several hundred million dollars and a [...]

For most American football fans Sunday will be a day brimming with hope. The 2001 National Football League campaign begins with the opportunity to wash away the disappointments of the [...]

A decade after swapping her racquet for a nose ring in a fit of adolescent rage, Jennifer Capriati is back - back on the tennis court, and back among the [...]

The sun shone, the president's helicopter did a flyover, 34,000 fans turned up, and Brandi Chastain kept her shirt on. All in all, the Women's United Soccer Association, the first [...]

Physically, she is unimposing. Her personality is not especially charismatic. For all the glitter of her sporting reputation, she has been accused of seldom coming through in a match when [...]

Just after sun-up this Thursday, golf legends Sam Snead and Byron Nelson, both nearly 90 now, will stand on the first tee at Augusta National and, with prized drivers in [...]

Will he or won't he? Last week, it was reported that Michael Jordan, now 38, was considering yet another comeback. Allegedly inspired by Pittsburgh Penguin star Mario Lemieux, who 'unretired' [...]

Back when they were winning National Basketball Association titles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Detroit Pistons had a maddening ritual that they performed after big wins. The [...]

Despite the presence of two teams, a playing field and a ball, the Super Bowl is not really an athletic event. It is a Hollywood extravaganza, a production so star-studded [...]

If you are one of those fans who measures American football's entertainment value in terms of touchdowns, you might want to think twice before plopping down on the couch to [...]

In tennis, as in life, there are two ways to announce your arrival: loudly or softly. In the case of Marat Safin, the charming but combustible Russian goliath, it was [...]

Now the fun begins. After a fairly humdrum regular season the National Football League play-offs get under way tomorrow. 'Wide open' is one of the sporting world's most over-used phrases, [...]

This weekend, the curtain falls on the National Football League's regular season. But even as the spotlight shifts to the play-offs, many commentators and fans are savouring the travails of [...]

Importer, retailer, estate proprietor, author: no one in the wine world has worn more hats than Kermit Lynch. Certainly, the US wine scene has yielded few more intriguing figures than [...]

There are three types of tennis star these days: those who decline to take part in the Olympics; those who deign to play but refuse to reside in the Olympic [...]

These are, we are told, trying times for the devout sports fan. From the cricket oval to the baseball diamond to the boxing ring the story line is said to [...]

To Gary Braswell, it had all the makings of a non-event. Last September, his auction house, Braswell Galleries, was commissioned to sell several hundred items belonging to Madame Chiang Kai-shek, [...]