Filipino Fruit Salad Recipe

Fruit salad recipe is a very simple and easy to prepare. All you need to do is to prepare the fruits of your own choice. Please select the freshest fruits in the market so that you will be able to have the best and healthy salad in town. This recipe is a perfect to serve...

Zuccotto - a cake for all occasions

Pane di Spagna is a light sponge cake found in most markets in Italy. It is often layered with mascarpone, pastry cream, fruit etc. Biscotti are also often layered in the same manner. These are common everyday...

Clever Advertisement Says, ‘It’s Berry Season…’

This morning, I came across a clever and creative advertisement for Theis Farm and Greenhouses on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch web site. I don’t know who created this ad, but it sure does a good job of drawing...

Martian soil 'good enough for asparagus'

It's a long way to walk to Mars for a bunch of asparagus tips especially when with better land management we could grow all our food needs here on Earth probably forever." Bad for strawberries, great for asparagus...

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...

Greece's strawberry war ends in uneasy truce

In scenes reminiscent of Steinbeck's 1930's classic, the Grapes of Wrath, immigrant and minority workers have clashed with what Greek newspapers called "hired thugs' over pay and conditions. Amidst sometimes violent clashes agricultural workers in the Greek town of Nea...

Strawberry Fields Forever...The Road to Plougastel and Brest

A reader's question on the best way to get to Plougastel (Brittany, France if you wonder)from the US sent me searching for the best current answer. When I lived in the area, I usually rode my bike from one city to the other. I also got on my 2 wheels on numerous occasions...

Fruity cocktails count as health food, study finds

"A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday. Adding ethanol -- the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits --...

Strawberries

"Strawberries When I was a kid, fruits like strawberries, cherries, kiwi etc were not very common. They used to be available in very few places and they used to be quite expensive. Today a lot of people has seen the potential of these things and have started growing them....

Citrus Emergency in California

With severely cold weather everywhere, as well as on the West coast, the mild weather loving citrus trees are in big trouble.  The losses are so bad that the governator has called a State of Emergency.  ...

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