It’s 33 degrees today in Chicago — a good temperature for butchering, according to Lardon chef Chris Thompson, but not for curing, a task best carried out at about twice that. But the temperature ...

Around every corner at the Fringe there is another stall selling 'Edinburgh's best Bratwurst', but at the Pleasance Dome there is a completely different sausage on offer, and it's not particularly one ...

Among the curious ironies of World War One is that after fighting for four years on the Western Front the average British soldier returned home in some ways outwardly healthier – almost certainly ...