Being all health conscious and environmentally friendly - or, at least, trying to - we get a weekly fruit and

Sometimes you just need to have your cake and eat it.  The other day I stumbled across the picture of an appl

For every festival in the German calendar, it seems, there is a specially shaped bread or cake. We have a spec

As the country is gripped by a Siberian cold wave (cue the muffled sound of real Siberians chuckling at the co

With Fat Tuesday, literally Mardi Gras, Christians all over the world realise that the good times are over: Le

It's that time of the year again - Karneval, Fasnacht or Fasching, traditionally the celebration of the end of

A birthday is not a birthday without a cake. But what happens when the birthday girl or boy can't eat any? Fro

Across Europe, yeasted sweet breads are part and parcel of the Easter celebrations, but this cake is special.

Easter is a very special time in Catholic countries, as Easter marks the end of Lent and the Resurrection of J

In my last post I was explaining how living abroad affects your eating habits, which for Germans means complai

When you ask immigrants about what they miss most about their home country, the conversation will invariably m

In many ways, Lent is the old-fashioned Christmas hangover cure: after all the indulgences of carnival and Mar

With only a few days to go before Christmas, I can finally muster the energy to make my favourite treats: the

Having read a few articles on how our addiction to refined sugar has rendered us overweight and diabetic, I ha

When you walk in a forest in Europe at this time of the year, chances are you come across wild garlic: this gr

This is probably the most deadly dessert ever: thin layers of almond meringue, soaked with coffee and brandy a

If you've ever been to Belgium, chances are that you came across waffles; big ones, thick ones, some sweeter,

It's still early days so I am going strong with my New Year's resolutions. As I mentioned, I'm going to be rea

If you only want to bake one thing this Christmas, make it this Stollen: moist, marzipan-filled and steeped in

OK, the run-up to Christmas might not be the right time for such a healthy pursuit, but, seriously, there is n

This is the most German of all German breads: dark, rye-based and uncompromising. It's Schwarzbrot, 'black bre

Dulce de Leche, a sweet and milky concoction that tastes of caramel and vanilla, is what holds Latin America t

After the excesses of the last weeks (cake! bun! more cake!) I thought I'd give you a break and preach sourdou

Red cabbage is one of the greatest delights of autumn: and not just because of its glorious purple colour! Th