Tag: food
Pier 94, New Venue for Chocolate Show 2008 in New...
For its 11th Edition, The Chocolate Show (New York) moves to bigger and better digs at Pier 94.The event this year takes place from November 7 to November 8.
No Sheep's Head on the Menu for Norway's Constitu...
In my morning scan of the world, Norway's Constitution Day, was part of the catch.The holiday is celebrated on May 17.The Norwegian Constitution was adopted in 1814.May 17 is also the occasion (according to the official Norway site in the US) for"students in their last year...
Chavez Calls For $1 Billion Poverty Fund
Hugo Chavez has committed $365 million of Venezuela's oil income to establishing a global fund to provide food and medicine to the poor and urged other nations to help raise that total to $1 billion. Will other...
American Backpackers Forgo European Travel
As prices for food, accommodation, fuel, and flights are all going through the roof, would-be North American backpackers are being left stranded at home, unable to justify the high cost of having that clichéd summer of self-discovery: tripping one's way through the...
Who profits from the global food crisis?
The prices of wheat, corn and rice have soared over the past year driving the world's poor – who already spend about 80 per cent of their income on food – into hunger and destitution.
While the poor are getting...
Japanese Delicacies: Monja-yaki (dried squid, cor...
I am staying away from art and craft today for Tokyo Thursdays.Instead I went looking for Foodie Bits and was lucky to find a flurry of details on Japanese Delicacies organized by region on the Japan National Tourist Organization site.I decided to showcase one dish amongst...
Burma is in trouble
UPDATE: 5:53PM ESTSome disturbing allegations are coming to light this evening about the military stealing food from aid organizations that are meant to help the victims of the storms."The directors of several relief...
30 cent jump overnight
Overnight, our diesel price took the biggest jump it's ever taken in one price hike.
We have a crooked jobber here, Cross Petroleum and he's always made prices artificially high here. They can be 40-60 cents lower...
Ban bread as bird food - it does more harm than good
Apparently spending a lazy afternoon in the park feeding the birds and lying on the grass is not a great way to spend the day. Bread should be banned as a bird food because it is unhealthy and dangerous and can even...
UK inflation woe 'set to worsen'
Bank of England governor Mervyn King stated that the outlook for UK inflation has 'deteriorated markedly' and things are going to get worse before they can get better."Government figures on Tuesday showed that the...
Squirrelburgers!
It would seem that a new food craze is afoot in Britain: squirrel meat. To what extent, though, is this a marketing thing? I don't know anyone in the UK who has tasted squirrel. At any rate, squirrels aren't...
First US Aid Plane Touches Down in Burma, Governm...
Amid increasing criticism, the ruling military junta in Burma continues to ignore aid agencies and refuses to fast track visas to allow aid to reach areas devastated by Cyclone Nargis. The first US aid flight landed...
Genetic sleuths unmask secrets of big tomatoes
"Humans began domesticating plants in the last roughly10,000 years. They had no knowledge of genetics and noknowledge of breeding, but somehow they rendered these changesgenetically on plants," Tanksley, plant...
To Save Endangered Species, Create Demand by Eati...
According to conservation scientist Gary Paul Nabhan, the best way to save more than 1,000 plants and animals on the edge of extinction is by creating a market demand for them. In other words..."Slice them up...
On Mother's Day...Do Chefs Hate Holidays?
Over the past week, I spoke to a number of chefs (here in the US) and the overwhelming majority dreaded the Mother's Day marathon.They would throw in the same bag of dreaded workdays Valentine's Day and New Year.Maybe the holiday they hate most of all to work on is...
