It’s the dog days of summer and with the humidity and the endless wait for the next southerly change (apologies to our Northern Hemisphere readers who...

Imagine lying on the ground, fully conscious, unable to speak because you have ingested the poison, tetrodotoxin.

All your muscles become paralysed and and it starts getting harder to breathe. As your heart starts to beat slower and slower, you try to call for help but nothing comes out.

When you start to slowly die from asphyxiation, you start thinking why you ate fugu, one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine - the blowfish.

It's the night before payday and the next big grocery shop is still 24 hours away. The pantry is suspiciously bare except for some penne, some olive oil, an old red onion and a tin of lentils. The fridge doesn't hold much promise either. What isn't mouldy or past its use-by date could fill just one shelf. There's a sealed container of salad leaves, left over from the weekend barbeque. Half a chicken from last night's takeaway. Some boutique cheese that your beloved bought back from a trip to the vineyards. A tomato. Half an avocado. Two eggs. Some sourdough bread that is going stale.

Have you ever invited a friend over for dinner only to find out that they can't eat any of the food you've cooked - not because you're a bad cook or because they are allergic, but because their religion doesn't permit them to?

Living in multicultural Australia, I have had several awkward moments with my dinner guests, due to my ignorance. I figured if I can eat it, so can my guests. Clearly not.

Sandra Reynolds News out of Britain recently saw Bill Whitwam of Aylestone, Leicester claiming that he had the world's oldest working vacuum cleane...

There is a moment in last season’s MasterChef when Chris Badenoch, the dour beer-loving nose-to-tail aficionado presents a roasted pigs head to the judges. The knife skewers through the cheek and the perfectly roasted skin with a satisfying crackle and the eyes on every face in the room lights up at the sound.

When I was at my friend's house over the weekend, I noticed her throwing away perfectly good food - leftovers from the night before, and cheese that h...

Easter starts on April 2 this year. Allowing for the 40 days of Lent, this means that today is Shrove Tuesday, or Pancake Tuesday. Traditionally the...

The release of Lenard's Vegemite range of chicken products prompted a discussion here at All Eaten Up, namely the hitherto secret world of Vegemite as a meat marinade.

It seems the world is divided into two camps – those who swear by the flavour of vegemite marinade, and those who have never heard of the practise.

During the Middle Ages, there was a belief that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would bec...