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Cooking videos online: Recipes like Mom used to teach (Los Angeles Times)

Online cooking videos are the ultimate in quality and quirky DIY lessons. Where else can you get cooking with Christopher Walken? TWENTY-FIVE years out of restaurant school, I should know how to cut up a mango. But it wasn’t until I was noodling around online recently that I finally learned why I make a mess of every one. In a video on iFoods.tv , an Irish chef in a T-shirt used a small knife …

Seven hurt in cooking gas cylinder blast (IANS via Yahoo! India News)

Ahmedabad, May 14 (IANS) At least seven people were injured Wednesday in a cooking gas cylinder blast at a house in Madhupura area here.

The Nation: Cooking gas price hike: P0.50 (BusinessWorld Online)

COOKING GAS prices will be more expensive by P0.50 per kilogram starting 12:01 a.m. tomorrow.

Cooking up a best-seller (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Already one of the best-selling vocalists in the history of country music, Trisha Yearwood is now a best-selling author as well. Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen, a book of family recipes that Yearwood, her mother and sister coauthored, recently debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list. It’s just another accomplishment for the 43-year-old Georgia native, who has had nine No. …

Seven hurt in cooking gas cylinder blast (Calcutta News)

At least seven people were injured Wednesday in a cooking gas cylinder blast at a house in Madhupura area here. The incident occurred at 8.30 a.m. in Nakranpura chali, also known as Marwadi-ni-chali.

High price of fuel linked to cooking oil thefts (KOAM-TV Pittsburg)

Associated Press - May 14, 2008 10:14 AM ET SEGDWICK, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas biodiesel maker blames skyrocketing gasoline prices for recent thefts of used cooking oil, the prime ingredient in the…

Five-week healthy cooking series starts June 3 (Montgomery Advertiser)

A five-week cooking series aimed at teaching people to cook healthful yet easy and delicious foods begins at 6:30 p.m. June 3 at Montgomery First Seventh-day Adventist Church, 4233 Atlanta Hwy., and continues on the next four Tuesday evenings.

Thieves stealing used cooking oil for biodiesel (The Wichita Eagle)

The price of gasoline has gotten so high that people have begun to steal used cooking oil. “There’s somebody, or multiple people, out there stealing our cooking oil,” said Ben Healy of Healy Biodiesel in Sedgwick. Healy’s company converts used vegetable cooking oil into biodiesel, and he has contracts with more than 100 restaurants in and around Wichita to pick up their old oil. But thieves …

Cooking club at Kauai Museum features preparing in the raw (The Garden Island)

The Kauai Museum hosts a cooking club from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the third Saturday of every month that features a local chef preparing meals that are quintessentially Kauai. Raw foods advocate Jan DeLaVega returns this Saturday for her third presentation on preparing exclusively uncooked recipes. Her focus this week will be on breads, crackers and breakfast items. Attendees can still expect her …

Gas thieves develop taste for rancid cooking oil (KOMO Seattle)

Biodiesel has become so valuable that each month thieves are stealing 30,000 gallons of leftover cooking oil used to make the eco-friendly fuel. “We know who’s taking it, but they don’t know that we know,” said John Wick, owner of Standard Biodiesel.

Late breaking news

Mechanism to ensure cooking oil supply, price stay stable (The New Straits Times)

PUTRAJAYA: The government is expected to announce a new mechanism for subsidised cooking oil to ensure sufficient supply and stability in price by the end of the month.

Thefts Of Cooking Grease On Rise (KMBC-TV Kansas City)

Recent thefts of used cooking grease are hurting one Wichita-based biodiesel fuel company.

5/14 What’s cooking? (The Lufkin Daily News)

To me, there is nothing more “Southern” than corn bread and any type of cake, so this week’s collection of recipes is truly a Southern delight, in my book. I hope you enjoy these recipe shares as much as I do, and I hope you find time to enjoy cooking this week. Let’s cook!

Harare suspends duties on cooking oil, flour (SABC News)

Zimbabwe today suspended import duty on some basic commodities, including cooking oil and flour, in response to a sharp spike in prices following the flotation of the local currency by the central bank last month.