The culinary history of Peking duck goes as far back as the Yuan dynasty, where it was listed in royal cookbooks as an imperial food.
Close to Taumarunui, a small town in the south of the region, chef and Maori food expert Charles Royal guides a battered 4x4 along a dirt track.
Robin Harper (Green) asked the first minister to suspend suspend the contract of food supply to Edinburgh royal infirmary so patients receive a better standard of service.
The drive to improve patients' food has nothing less than a royal backer.
Now, they have been embraced by those who want to grow their own food and know what they are eating - and they have the royal seal of approval.
It runs about 30 degree and post-graduate courses in agriculture, business, equine, food, land and property management and is planning to change its name to Royal Agricultural University.
The business started shifting away from stocking streams to stocking store shelves in the 1970s, when Giant Food, a Landover, Md. grocery chain now owned by the Dutch group Royal Ahold, started buying its fillets.
John Richards, of the Royal Bank of Scotland in Tokyo, points out that since inflation is almost entirely due to dearer food and energy, both of which Japan imports, rather than because of rising domestic demand, it reflects an unwelcome worsening of the country's terms of trade.
ECONOMIST: Japan has long hoped for a bit of inflation��but not this sort
"The sandeel props up the whole of the North Sea food chain, including the poor old beleaguered cod, " said Dr Euan Dunn, from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
The market, which was granted the Royal Charter in 1700, is visited by up to seven million people a year who use its 150 shops and food stalls.
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