It is the 40th time the event has taken place at South Queensferry, with many participants wearing colourful fancy dress as ...

SCOTTISH swimmers braved the cold for a dip in the sea for today’s Loony Dook. Across the country, punters are celebrating ...

Around the world, there’s a certain type of person who likes to celebrate the new year by plunging into bone-chillingly cold waters, often wearing silly costumes. Today’s weather photo showcases one ...

BRINY baloney or bracing bathe? Whichever it is, the Loony Dook, which takes place every 1 January, has become a Scottish institution, at least ...

As a long-idled building comes back to life in downtown New Orleans, it will have a new restaurant from a rising star chef and scion of an influential local hospitality family. Edgar "Dook" Chase IV, ...

Scotland has its fair share of unusual New Year traditions. From the swinging of fireballs in Stonehaven to the burning of the clavie in Burghead, many of these Hogmanay rituals date back centuries.

In a gastronomical switcheroo, New Orleans restaurateur Edgar "Dook" Chase IV makes his Food Network debut Thursday night, but he won't be cooking a lick. Rather, the mastermind behind multiple ...

Creole Corn and Crawfish Maque Choux at Dook's Place at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. (Photo by Todd A. Price, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Edgar Chase IV and Gavin Goins Jr., ...