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Many home cooks and even professionals in Greece tend to leave their bacon soft, just cooking it enough to add a bit of color. However, the ultimate goal should be to achieve perfectly crispy, caramelized bacon with a golden hue—a staple in countries where bacon plays a significant role in their culinary culture.

These days, think twice before you lavishly ladle olive oil onto your pasta, salad or crusty bread.

Olive oil, a daily staple of Mediterranean cuisine and the life of many a salad throughout Europe, is experiencing a staggering rise in price. It's a prime example of how food still outruns overall inflation in the European Union.

İrem Günaydın's exhibition titled "Salad Cake" at Istanbul's The Pill Contemporary Art Gallery approaches the two main disciplines of art history, which are painting and sculpture, around a letter written by the artist. In the exhibition, painting and sculpture come close to each other in a two-and-a-half dimensional setup.

Greece faces a stiff European Union fine for failing to align with environmental standards regarding water purity.
Specifically, the country faces the prospect of being brought before the European Court of Justice for failing to curb the pollution of surface and ground water caused by nitrates from agricultural fertilizers.

An ice sculpture exhibition in the Belgian town of Bruges will open its doors to visitors on Saturday for a freezing walk through a world of illuminated frozen creatures, which organizers are calling the first ever digital ice art museum, reported Wavy.com

Forty artists from around the world have been chipping at ice and snow to make this project come to life.

New rules on foodstuffs are being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nova TV reported. The goal is to avoid the double standard. The draft provisions provide for the exact meat content of sausages to be described. Wieners, for example, must have at least 50% meat. Similar will be the requirements for kielabasi and other types of sausages.

The Bulgarian division of the German company Lidl introduces new higher standards for the quality of the sausage from their own brand that they offer. All sausages from the Pikok, Baroni and Dulano brands, as well as from the "Rodna Stryha" product line, are now produced without the use of mechanically separated meat, which reduces the use of improvers and thickeners, the company said.

In the western province of Muğla's Bodrum's district, a stray cat, which was claimed to have stolen sausage from a grocery store chain, was put in a cage by the store's officials. 

Mövenpick Hotel Istanbul presents delicious and healthy "Salads Reinvented" menu at AzzuR Restaurant and BarAdoX featuring all-time classic favourites interpreted with a gourmet twist through Sept. 30. 

Nitrates over norms were found in drinking water in Silistra, according to data from the Regional Health Inspection (RHI). They are the result of inspections in the villages of Iskra and Popina.