Overdosing on Carbs can be Deadly

If it’s man-made, don’t eat it.When I was raised in North Central Ohio, my Mother served organic food because most of it was organic. Along came the food processing industry – first packaged cereal...

As the troops enter, we fear the worst

I hope that everyone reads this article and gets a sense of how this invasion and this ongoing violence in Gaza is affecting the regular civilian population, who are being punished for simply living (under Hamas.)...

A study in pumpkin pie

We start off in this examination of pumpkin pie with a hard truth.  Most U.S.  pumpkin pie is a lie."An interesting fact is that most canned 'pumpkin' is actually hubbard squash. Hubbard squash has the...

The floured entry of Lindsay Lohan in Paris.

The actress got flooded of flour when she was arriving at an exclusive party in Paris. Some activicts from PETA, organization against animal cruelty, bombed Lohan for wearing what appears to be fur."A member of...

Animal rights group throws flour on fur clad Lohan

"Animal rights group throws flour on fur-clad Lohan ""PARIS (AP) -- U.S. actress Lindsay Lohan has been pelted with a flour bomb on arrival at a Paris nightclub wearing a fur stole. Animal rights activists...

7 Pasta Shapes I Have Loved (Plus 1 That Made Me Gag)

Having been raised in an Italian household, pasta is, for me, more than a food. It’s a requirement. Sort of a Vitamin P, if you will. If I don’t eat it on a regular basis, I actually become nervous and unfocused, and I begin to wonder if I’m coming down with something....

Canada's Food Has Recall Problems - Flour That Can Sicken

While our recent focus has been on the Listeria contamination of meats and China's milk scandal, we now have a recall of flour.  The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA) has issued a recall notice for...

Flour prices in Pakistan to go sky high after Eid

"Atta (flour) crisis is again in the making in Pakistan as the government has reduced wheat quota of flourmills at the rate of Rs450 per 40kg from 27.5 bags to 22 bags per day, while the Special Ramadan Package will also conclude immediately after Eidul Fitr, sources here...

That's Not a Chip... That's a Pringle!

In a tax dispute ruling, a London judge announced that Pringles are not potato chips, as they do not fit the legal definition. The stackable snackables are made from dough and not potato, and the eating...

Vegetable Prices Soar in Pakistan

During the last few months, Pakistan - in particular its biggest and richest city, Karachi - is in the grip of rising food prices. There has been a wheat and flour crisis and commodities such as fruits and...

Egypt: Bread Protest Leaves 10 Dead!

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSomething is seriously wrong in our Society, when a life is worth more than a Loaf of Bread, as thousands demonstrate against the Egyptian Government rationing of flour,...

Food crisis: A daily quest for bread in Cairo

This is an important story:"Cairo - Every day at 4 a.m., Hagg Abdel Wahab walks down a narrow path past a simple coffee and tea shop to his bakery. For 40 years, this elderly man has donned a gray gallabeya robe smudged with white flour and baked thousands of...

How to render lard

Lard. I have to admit that for most of mylife that I’ve been terrified of the stuff. Be it schoolyard tauntsthat used the word, or the absence of it at both the grocery store andin my childhood home—I believed...

Just how bad is a happy meal? You don't wanna know

"So we actually know what's in a happy meal. 1. AWESOME toy 2. Chicken Nuggets, fries, juice-soda-thing 3. Head-lice medication 4. "slightly toxic" chemicals 5. Silly Putty/Breast implant products 6. More carcinogens than you can shake a stick at! just read the full article"

Theatre of Pies

Manchester United may have the Theatre of Dreams as their home but Scottish football team Kilmarnock lay claim to the Theatre of Pies being home to the famed Killie Pie which is made using only the finest Canadian flour. " John Gall isn’t a name known to most supporters...

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