There's more to Oktoberfest celebrations than beer - there's also the food. KILMENY ADIE talks to the people working hard to ensure the region's party has enough pastries, sausages and pretzels. For the Baker St patissiers of Corrimal, this week will pass in a blur of flour, eggs and cream as..read more

there's a festival atmosphere in the air when the Japanese go to the seaside, writes Dominic Knight.

ON AUGUST 1, a rising star of the Chinese bureaucracy, Wu Jianping, received the doorknock that every powerful and rich Chinese official fears. It was the Communist Party's Discipline and Inspection Commission, asking if the food safety chief could reconcile his meagre official salary with his portfolio of Beijing properties..read more

Patties may be small, but Michele Allan relishes the challenges it presents, writes Christopher Webb.

We have all done it; at Christmas, a birthday party or on a Friday night out ; eating way too much and suffering for it for hours afterwards. While binge eating can be a diagnosed clinical eating disorder, less serious but still frequent overeating of high fat, high calorie foods..read more