A patient, who in previous years suffered from indigestion, had been having stomach pain and the desire to vomit after eating several rice dumplings within a couple of days, the Central News Agency reported yesterday.

“Don't miss yummy camel burger” reads the Dubai restaurant's sign, putting a Western twist on traditional fare to entice adventurous tourists into giving camel meat a chew.

Italian prosecutors believe pizza in the southern city of Naples may be baked in ovens lit with wood from coffins dug up in the local cemetery, Italian daily Il Giornale reported on Monday.

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, two of country music's hottest singles, are off the market. People.com is reporting that Shelton asked Lambert to marry him on Sunday. Kathy Best, Lambert's publicist, confirmed the news Tuesday.

A U.S. wine merchant went beyond just cursing Gordon Ramsay on Monday and filed a lawsuit against the television celebrity chef who is known as much for his command of swear words as he is for his sauces.

An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”

“Ever tasted a pea-flower or beetroot sprout?” said Didier Pil, a chubby French vegetable farmer in overalls whose annual harvest of 120 different varieties largely winds up in the kitchens of the country's top chefs.

They're as much a part of New York as bagels or the Empire State Building, but traditional pickled cucumbers are disappearing — leaving aficionados with a sour taste.

Nineopus. Novopus. Freak of nature. Whatever you want to call it, the nine-legged octopus probably had a leg up on all the other creatures in the Gulf of Mexico — until it was caught and found its way to Hellas Bakery and Restaurant in Florida.

Whether wrapped in newspaper and eaten with greasy fingers or served on white china with silver cutlery, fish and chips has come a long way since it began 150 years ago.