We consume some of our foodstuffs raw and others by cooking. While the foods that are eaten raw should be washed and consumed very well, the correct cooking of the

Among the oldest peoples of the Middle East are the Assyrians, an indigenous Christian nation of Mesopotamia whose memory reaches back to the empires of Nineveh and Nimrud. For nearly

In the green, rain-washed mountains of Spain’s northern coast lives a people whose homeland was once a kingdom and whose story helped shape the whole peninsula. The Asturians, gathered between

Across the wooded savanna where the Nile and the Congo divide, in the borderlands of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic, live the

So far in this series we have looked at vitamins as a whole, and then at vitamin A. Now we reach the largest family of them all: the B vitamins.

Deep in the equatorial rainforest of southeastern Cameroon and its neighbours live the Baka, one of the forest hunter-gatherer peoples of the Congo Basin once known to outsiders as Pygmies.

In the high Zagros mountains of southwestern Iran live the Bakhtiari, one of the largest and most storied of the country`s tribal peoples, a branch of the Lurs. Nomadic herders

On the small tropical island of Bali, amid volcanoes and cascading rice terraces, live the Balinese, a Hindu people set apart in the worlds most populous Muslim nation. Heirs to

Along the great river Irrawaddy, in the heart of Myanmar, live the Bamar, the largest people of the country and the makers of its dominant language and culture. Devout Buddhists

In the green volcanic highlands of western Cameroon live the Bamileke, the largest people of the country and one of its most dynamic. Rather than a single kingdom they form