Obama and Rachael Ray will host a cooking competition between school chefs to highlight the new healthier school lunches.

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And while the Dutch airline started regularly using recycled cooking oil on some commercial flights between Amsterdam and Paris in June 2011, this latest usage represents the first time biofuels will be used on a regular weekly schedule on transatlantic flights.

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The prices of basic food items such as bread, milk, vegetables, and cooking oil, which rose 47 percent between 2011 and 2012, continue to climb.

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Nowadays they smash their balls of ground beef prior to cooking, storing their flattened patties in-between waxed paper in a chiller drawer beneath the griddle until an order comes in.

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Situated at the top of a triangle between Ottawa and Montreal, Mont Tremblant has food options that combine classic French cooking styles with Canadian ingredients.

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And she's not the only one - the Hairy Bikers recently filmed their cooking programme at the baths and Victoria Wood and Jenny Agutter have been known to visit in-between theatre shows.

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