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Business

Difficult to digest cost of doner kebabs prompts price cap calls

In Germany, the once-affordable doner kebab has become the emblem of a growing concern: donerflation.

11 May 2024

Brussels, My Love?

Brussels, my love? Champage cracked open to celebrate the Big Bang

In this edition, we zoom in on dwindling press freedom in Europe and check how Europe is doing 20 years after the big bang enlargement.

4 May 2024

Europe News

Turkish kebabs turn to Europe for protected status

Türkiye has filed an application to grant its best-known foodstuff the same EU protection as Neapolitan pizza and Spanish jamon serrano.

24 April 2024

Food and Drink

Venezuela's daily humble corn-bread "arepa" conquers the world

From the streets of Caracas to trendy eateries in New York, Paris and Tokyo: the arepa, a humble cornmeal flatbread, is riding a wave of Venezuelan emigration and feeding a craving for exotic and gluten-free food.

16 June 2023

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World-famous Turkish dish kebab attempted to be sent into space

A Turkish restaurant owner tried to send a plate of Adana kebab, one of the Turkish dishes listed as one of the best traditional dishes in the world, into space with a helium balloon.

14 April 2022

Culture news

Prima döner: Meet the Michelin star chef making kebabs in Manchester

Inspired by Berlin street food and rave culture, Michelin-starred chef Brad Carter has put his own unique twist on the döner kebab.

13 October 2021

World News

European parliament saves the kebab

A proposal to ban the popular dish on health grounds because of high phosphate levels has been defeated by just three votes, to the relief of Germany's Turkish fast-food chefs.

13 December 2017