Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of ...

The carnation is one of January's birth flowers, ushering in the year with its slightly spicy scent and color variations.

(“Unlike most Chinese,” he says, “I adore the strong smell and flavour of blue cheese.”) He decided to take a job at Deda because his Cantonese girlfriend (now his wife) was a fan of its fo ...

In 1908 in Australia, New South Wales listed cannabis as an ingredient that could “adulterate” food and drink (along with opium, cocaine and chloroform ... in a drink called Vin Mariani—Pope Leo XIII ...

A community for food fans from across the city to come ... Jamie McGarry stated that Opium has one of the "most delicious Chinese menus in the City", adding: "A smaller menu of carefully chosen ...

When the friend moved out, the apartment was up for bidding, and he landed his ideal home, recounted the former student of architecture and fan of iconic Sri Lankan ... where he starts each morning by ...

In 1839, Lin was the Qing dynasty official who confronted the British and their illegal opium trade that pushed the substance on Chinese users; he confiscated 20,000 chests of the drug and cast ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...

from China . . . ” Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:That the Chinese were buying a little bit of opium every time, and that number was increasing. PRESENTER:'The key to the opium trade was British control of India, 'where the ...