France’s truffle farmers aim to stop inferior Chinese fungi getting a sniff

Scientists use their noses to help distinguish between highly prized black truffles and cheap Chinese imports

Mexico’s exciting new wine trail: Valle de Guadalupe

Some call Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe, in Baja California, the new Napa – but a tour of its wineries, hotels and restaurants shows that it is very much its own place

Aphrodisiacal experience with world’s most expensive Valentine’s Day dinner

The latest outrageously extravagant package from VeryFirstTo luxury retail website, the same company which offers around- the-world trips to all UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is the most expensive Valentine’s Day dinner in the world. To impress your Valentine this year the dinner will bring on the same plate Almus white caviar, Amethyst Bamboo salt, and … Read more

Top 10 restaurants in Buenos Aires

The steak is great, of course, but Argentina’s capital also has atmospheric local pizza joints, fine-dining and Latin fusion restaurants. We round up the best places to eat out

Argentina: the peso and the ‘blue dollar’ – what tourists need to know

Tajima Kobe Beef. The benefits.

Eating Japanese Kobe beef with an A5 grade, considered to be the world’s best beef, can improve your health, thanks to the Kobe beef‘s very high levels of Omega 3 fatty acids, which can help improve your cholesterol levels and improve your heart health.   Eat beef to lower your cholesterol? This is not what most … Read more

High Lines and park life: why more green isn’t always greener for cities

Transforming old industrial areas into urban woodland may look nice but can be conterproductive in the long run