The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is now in its fourth week and for many Egyptians this year the physical struggle of enduring the customary daily fast has been combined with a financial struggle caused by rising inflation.

BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Franks sends the latest edition of his diary.

A manufacturer has said the cost of its main raw ingredient is 300% higher because of global food price increases.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott tells how he met former PM Sir Anthony Eden while working as a waiter on a ship.

The International Space Station crew gets a taste of gourmet space food thanks to a leading French chef.

Two tonnes of semolina flakes fall on a Norfolk seaside town after a factory blasted the grain into the air.

People from a wide variety of different nations celebrate living together in Aberystwyth.

The head of Europe's biggest pasta mill is arrested in the Italian city of Bari on food adulterating charges.

A catering college in the northern Algerian city of Tizi Ouzou creates the world's largest couscous.

Join the debate on BBC's Africa Live! - do you prefer burger and chips or Jollof rice and mealie meal?

Your reviews of Celebrity Wife Swap with Jade Goody and ex-army major Charles Ingram.

Bad memories of school dinners still affect the eating habits of many adults, with tapioca topping the most hated list - survey.

Funding to combat the BSE crisis was one of the areas of the EU's accounts criticised in a damning report from the EU's auditors.

School dinners: Should kids have the choice?