Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.

Researchers in Australia on Monday called for health warnings on caffeine-loaded energy drinks following a spike in the number of people reporting medical problems after drinking them.

Chinese entrepreneur An Yanshi is convinced he has found the key ingredient to produce the world's most expensive tea — panda poo.

Four out of five bottles of extra-virgin “Italian” olive oil are actually blended with foreign oil in a five-billion euro (US$6.5-billion) a year business, La Repubblica daily reported on Friday.

I am not a fussy eater. This makes finding things to eat in foreign countries both easy, and exciting. I especially love the reaction from local people when they learn you have tried a special and often unpopular local delicacy, and enjoyed it. I'd like to share with you some food experiences I have had in the past few months.

Move over azuki and sweet sticky rice. While Japanese pastry chefs may have started using cocoa a few centuries after the West, this once foreign flavor has captivated Japan's confectionery world.

Amid the din of a dozen kids beating batter, squeezing lemons and bustling about a commercial kitchen, Luca Lawandos expertly cracks an egg and separates the yolk from the white using the shell.

Table No. 1 from the famed New York City restaurant Elaine's has sold for almost US$9,000 at auction.

When he spent his days smoking crack cocaine and helping women sell themselves, Brandon Hicks had little occasion to ponder an herbed goat-cheese tartine.

If the restaurant world had farm teams, Chez Panisse is where the talent scouts would hang out.