With a press of the lever, Doris Ray cuts up a whole cucumber with the new Slice-o-matic. It's supposed to make this part of cooking go much faster. However, at just a few slices in, we run into a snag.

A spiny cucumber and a nanotube ''city'' feature among the winners of the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

Scientists have found the humble sea cucumber can play an important role in protecting coral reefs from the impacts of climate change.

Scientists have found the humble sea cucumber can play an important role in protecting coral reefs from the impacts of climate change.

Authorities are investigating how $876,000 dollars worth of meth ended up inside a cucumber shipment from Mexico.

Authorities are investigating how $876,000 dollars worth of meth ended up inside a cucumber shipment from Mexico.

The brine tanks are dry and the cucumber fields now grow soybeans as the Ontario birthplace of Bick’s pickles comes to terms with life without the iconic brand

The brine tanks are dry and the cucumber fields now grow soybeans as the Ontario birthplace of Bick’s pickles comes to terms with life without the iconic brand

Serves: 4 (2 tacos each) / Preparation time: 20 minutes / Total time: 30 minutes Chipotle chilies give the chicken a smoky, spicy kick that is cooled down by a crunchy avocado cucumber relish. These make for an easy weeknight meal. You can make the relish several hours ahead. AVOCADO-CUCUMBER RELISH

Raita (cucumber and yogurt dip) is a traditional “coolant” served with Indian foods to offset the spiciness. Here it is combined with inexpensive local cabbage and carrots to make a winter salad that accomplishes the same thing.

Can the Canadian cucumber survive without them?

Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Chinese New Year inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Chinese New Year inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

By John Barry, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, January 24, 2012 TAMPA —- The candle was scented cucumber melon. She remembered buying it at Target. After her husband doused her with gasoline, she said, “he tossed it at me like he would toss a remote.” A Hillsborough County Circuit Court jury Tuesday heard Audrey Mabrey, 29, relive the day in November 2009 that left her with heavy burn scars all over …

Cucumber Run went some way to upholding family honour by claiming the totepool Irish Day – Saturday 4th February Novices' Chase at Wetherby.

You may think this is early to think about cucumber growing, but it isn’t.