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At 8pm tonight Scotland and England will clash in the group stage of this year’s Euros tournament. Fans on both sides of the border will be nervously glued to the screen, but what will they be eating and drinking? At Clever Gretel we back the underdog. It is Scotland’s first time in the Euros for […]
Following the G7 summit, seven tons (7000 kilograms) of leftover food was donated to a local Cornwall foodbank. The food was made up of 3000 leftover breakfasts that were intended for security and police at the summit. It was sent to Camborne, Pool, and Redruth foodbank who then distributed the majority of the food, which […]
Across the former Yugoslavia grilling meat (more specifically, red meat) outdoors is something of an obsession. So much so that in the city of Leskovac in south Serbia, every September they celebrate rostiljada – a week-long festival where the streets are closed off and dedicated entirely to the rostilj or barbecue. Until I visited Shepherd […]
Anshel Cohen, 24, half-Jewish and half-German, tells the story of how a family favourite meal was born during the aftermath of World War II in Europe In 1948 Alfed, a small town in Lower Saxony, my Oma’s (Grandmother) family were finally reunited in a refugee camp. She was thirteen, and the first meal they shared […]
Vater, Papa, Padre, Abba, Apu, no matter what you call them, it’s important to celebrate the dad-figure in your life. Gretel sees the day as nothing more than a commercial cop-out, but she never misses the chance to celebrate with an eclectic range of food and drink from around the world. This Sunday is father’s […]