Mexico City, May 22 (EFE).- Chili peppers and sauces will take center stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honored, organizers said. The 1st Chilis, Sauces and Mortars Festival, which will be held Friday to Sunday, is being organized by the Enchilada Fair, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Mexico exports 560,000 tons of chili peppers annually, both fresh and dry peppers, making it the world's No. 2 producer of the spicy products.

Jamie Oliver has opened an American-style pop-up diner in London that will serve gourmet hot dogs, milkshakes, sliders and pancakes for the next three years in the heart of the city’s Theatre District. Announced in a blog post this month, Jamie’s Diner is strategically positioned on Shaftesbury Avenue in an area of high foot traffic and will cater both to daytime crowds and peckish after-theater-goers as it will be open late into the night.

CALGARY - Hold onto your hearts — deep-fried butter will be one of the midway snacks for sale at this year's Calgary Stampede. The annual rodeo and fair has released details of the foods that will be available for purchase by fair-goers beginning July 5. Among the coronary-clogging treats will be deep-fried delicacies such as double bacon wrapped corndogs and deep-fried bubblegum. Then there's the stuff on a stick — banana bacon ears, chip dogs, chocolate bacon apples, double smoked bacon-wrapped cheese perogies and even an egg roll on a stick.

British supermarket chain Asda on Tuesday recalled all of its budget corned beef range after veterinary drug phenylbutazone was found in some samples. The product was withdrawn last month after traces of horse DNA were discovered, and further analysis revealed the presence of "bute" at the level of four parts per billion (4ppb). It is the first time bute has been found in a meat sample, according to the Food Standards Agency, and no other Asda products are thought to be affected.