3 h. ago Do YOU know the origin of your favourite bar snack? Take the test to see if you know your Scotch Eggs from your Pickled Onions

A survey reveals scotch eggs, pork scratchings and pork pies are among the nation's favourites - but people are generally unaware where these classics originated.

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6 d. ago World's first pickled onion cocktail bar to open after Dua Lipa inspired trend

Garner's Pickles at Bar Swift Shoreditch serves a menu built entirely around pickled onions, with drinks including the 'Pickleback Buck' and 'Pickleada'

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6 d. ago Popstar Dua Lipa inspires world's first Pickled onion cocktail bar in London

A new pop-up bar in London is serving a cocktail menu entirely built around pickled onions

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2 w. ago Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Smokey Kudu: Peckham star prawn again in Marylebone

Josh Barrie discovers London’s best bar snack

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2 w. ago Experts issue warning over 'healthy' snack bars that contain MORE sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut

The probe, by campaign group Action on Salt and Sugar, looked at the nutritional content of more than 450 bars sold across ten supermarkets in the UK.

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3 w. ago Sicily deserves better than the looming prospect of a giant bridge that will never get built | Jamie Mackay

Troubled waters over the world’s longest suspension bridge are no surprise. The Italian government should be funding public servicesA dozen or so times each day, as Italy’s southbound Intercity rail service arrives in the Calabrian town of Villa San Giovanni, the journey comes to a dramatic halt. The train is decoupled from its tracks, carefully loaded on to the deck of a ferry, and secured in place. The entire cargo then eases out into the Strait of Messina en route to Sicily. Invariably, this 25-minute crossing becomes an impromptu community moment. Passengers abandon their carriages, flocking to the ship’s top-deck snack bar to share freshly fried arancini, trade anecdotes, and admire the vista over Mount Etna’s distant peak, before returning to continue their journey by rail.For tourists and itinerant visitors like myself, the ferry crossing is a charming novelty. For local people, however, it has long been a defining part of their identity. In his 1941 novel, Conversations in S...

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4 w. ago My search for the perfect steak frites in Paris, the staple of French brasserie cuisine

It’s on every prix fixe menu in France, but which restaurant serves up the best incarnation in the capital? I stomped and chomped my way across the city to find outI once ate seven bowls of ragù bolognese over the course of a single weekend. I was in Bologna, to be fair, and on a mission – to get to the bottom of spag bol (yes, I know it should be served with tagliatelle). A few years earlier, I did something similar with a Polish stew called bigos (a sort of hunter’s stew). I wanted to learn about its variations, its nuances, and I wondered what you could find out about a place if you dived into one dish in particular. In the case of bigos, I gleaned that the Polish are prepared to wait a long time for things to be done.My friend Tom suffers from a similar obsession (just last month he dropped a dozen scotch eggs on a bank holiday Monday) and so when he said he was heading to Paris to eat multiple steak frites, I wasn’t exactly surprised. He wasn’t just goi...

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