Person holding two paper cones filled with Belgian fries and topped with mayonnaise - Oleksandr Berezko/Shutterstock Walk along any street in Belgium and you're bound to find small street-side stalls ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - There are few things people agree on in linguistically divided Belgium, but an effort to get Belgian potato fries recognized as global cultural heritage and put it on a par with ...

Paul Vercammen is a former CNN correspondent. Let’s track the French fry’s arrival in America. That grease trail, according to food encyclopedias, leads back to Thomas Jefferson, who reportedly ...

When people (sometimes, if I am lucky, French people) ask me why my accent when speaking French is close to spot-on, I respond, “Ma mère était belge.” (“My mother was Belgian.”) While half of me may ...

A food fight has broken out between France and Belgium — as the countries bicker over who really invented the French fry. French newspaper Le Figaro published a story last week with the headline “No, ...

Fries powerhouse Belgium is in for a record potato harvest this year -- but that's hardly cause for celebration for farmers who face a slump in prices partially driven by a crunch in exports. With ...

People order french fries as all the restaurant and bar are closed except fast food, following an outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brussels, Belgium. Reuters BRUSSELS – Belgium’s national ...

Brussels — The European Commission wants all Belgians, and the world at large, to know: your famous fries are safe! A regional Belgian minister had alarmed the nation with warnings that — sacrilege! — ...

It’s rare that eating twice-fried potatoes more often can actually help a nation’s economy. But with 750,000 tons of potatoes sitting in Belgian warehouses as restaurants remain shuttered amid the ...