Building-scalingly cool.

Today marks the start of Diwali, the five-day Festival of Lights, one of the largest and most important celebrations in the Hindu culture.

Medical literature documents a few rare cases of poisoning ‘ in 1994 several schoolchildren in London developed gastrointestinal illness that was attributed to a toxic chemical present in cucumber served at lunch. In 2003, a farmer in the US developed diarrhoea for several days after he ate extremely bitter zucchini squash.

LA TRININDAD, Benguet – The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (Opag) allayed fears on the possible shortage of vegetables due to the impact of Typhoons Pedring and Quiel. Provincial Agriculturist Lolita Bentres admitted there were damages on standing crops such as snap beans, garden pea, cucumber, lettuce, and pepper particularly those in their vegetative stage. There was undeniably noted …

A skatepark may not be the place for crust-less cucumber sandwiches and Earl Grey tea but it is a place that requires good manners all the same. Here are six basic rules of skater etiquette that every new skatepark visitor should follow: 1.

Riding high in Wyoming; bathed in magic on David Copperfield’s Musha Cay; rain forest meets beach in Puerto Rico; and lots more.

Skip the cucumber. Try these tips for puffy eyes

When I heard the Ruskin Woman’s Club was having a pre-Christmas, tea-tasting meeting last week, I didn’t hesitate. I invited myself.

Food writer Eve Turow shares the foods and customs she delighted in — many of which have French and Dutch roots — during her recent travels in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

2-4 chicken thighs Chicken stock, to cover 6 stems of asparagus, cooked in boiling salted water for a minute and refreshed under cold water 100g Asian salad leaves and herbs such as Thai basil, coriander, mizuna, mustard leaf, mint etc a cucumber 3 spring onions, finely shredded on the angle

PLENTY of English tea, fine china and cucumber sandwiches will grace the tables of patrons to a High Tea at the Mount Isa races tomorrow.

PRINCESS ANNE — If it grows in the garden, Carolyn Merrill has probably canned it, baked it, stewed it, frozen it or cooked it, just-picked fresh.

Tonight’s solution Chicken-Cucumber Stir-Fry To make the meal Rice Fruit salad The 5:30 Challenge has featured many a stir-fry.

Cucumber growers in Hertfordshire have sparked a fruit and veg row after claiming their vegetables are bigger and juicier than others in the EU.

Cucumber growers in Hertfordshire claim their products are distinctive enough to warrant protected status from the EU.

James Boyle, of North Port, Fla., has an unusual family heirloom: a pickle, grown and bottled by his great-great-grandmother in 1876. Just for reference, that’s also the year of Custer’s defeat at Little Bighorn and the first telephone call made by Alexander Graham Bell.