Evgeny Grigoriev said the families of mobilized men can get a "one-off food package" including "cabbage, potato, carrot, beetroot, and onion."

The origins of the carved pumpkin on Halloween are not neat and tidy, but rather, a whole set of practices, from craved and illuminated vegetables as ancient human head totems, to Irish folk traditions to early Americana. As The History Guy points out in …

Facing supply shortages, price hikes and the prevalent use of dangerous pesticides, city-dwellers are turning to homegrown foodOn the outskirts of Kenya’s sprawling capital city of Nairobi, Nyambura Simiyu, a 35-year-old scientist, runs a farm in the back yar…

Chefs in Schools charity aims to intrigue, excite and thereby educate children about food production and healthy eatingSix-year-old Zuriel stood in the school lunch queue and looked at the vegetable noodles, steaming on the counter. “I don’t want to eat that,…

Dry roast them, grind them, fry them … they’re the salt and pepper of Sri Lankan cookingPart of the same family as bright citrus fruits like kumquat and calamansi, curry leaves have this wildly zesty, aromatic flavour plus a cinnamon-y quality. Growing up, my…

A fine example of Italy’s rustic cucina povera, where simple ingredients – flour, basic vegetables and chickpeas, in this instance – are transformed into a textural masterpieceTo make something beautiful out of simple ingredients is true grace. In Italy, this…