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By Eric Steinman From Care2
A few years ago, I was at a sustainable seafood conference held in New York. The place was buzzing with equal parts excitement (surrounding innovations in aquaculture and sustainable fish stocks) and dread (surrounding the dwindling supply of healthy wild fish). One thing the experts largely agreed upon was that the [...]
By Christina Uticone from Houston Press
How does an evening of Caribbean food, music, and cocktails sound? Today’s Houston Press Voice Daily Deal is good for half-off your choice of passes for the Third Annual Caribbean RumFest, August 16-17, 2013:
• $30 for $60 off of general admission passes (four rum sample tickets per day, souvenir shot [...]
Eric Steinma from Care2
A few months back, a website called Trueactivist.com (a sort of news aggregator with an activist flavor) published a list of nine foods you should never eat again if you care at all about your long-term health. Each of the nine foods mentioned ranged from the somewhat surprising to the “I stopped [...]
From ticio times
Panama’s Martinelli: “Reducing child malnutrition by half means we still have the other half to go.â€
At a ceremony in Rome on Sunday, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva recognized 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, and Venezuela, among others, that halved their [...]
By Ellen Kanner From Huffington Post
You and your partner are a hot young couple. You have a gorgeous eight month-old son. You live on a tropical island. Do you really need more? For Agata Kalicki and Reno Ciantar, the answer was, yes. “We found something was missing on the island,” says Kalicki. So she and [...]
From The New York Times
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Drug traffickers back in Colombia must be going bananas over how their shipment ended up at Danish supermarkets and not on the streets.
Police say employees at the supermarket chain Coop got a big surprise when they opened banana boxes from the South American country and found about 100 [...]
Brandi, selected from Diets in Review, From Care2
In a decision that would have protected farmers from corporate lawsuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Court has sided with Monsanto, affirming a previous ruling on the matter. U.S. organic growers filed the original suit against Monsanto in an effort to protect themselves from being [...]
By Jane-Anne Hobbs Scrumptious South Africa, From whats for supper
My first MasterChef/Woolworths recipe
Parsley, rosemary, anchovies and garlic perfume this slow-roasted ‘ball’ of lamb from the inside, with toasted almonds adding some interesting crunch. The sauce is a gentle pesto flavoured with walnuts, whose slight bitterness contrasts nicely with the sweetness of the lamb. I’ve blanched [...]
By Miche bacher From the kitchn
Candied rose petals on cakes and stuffed squash blossoms are yesterday’s news! Here are five edible flowers that will make you look at your flower bed in a new and delicious light.
I have been slightly obsessed with edible flowers ever since picking up a copy of Cooking with Flowers by [...]
By Peter Fuhrman, Seeking Alpha
It is, if voluminous press reports are to be believed, the biggest story, the biggest deal, ever in China-U.S. business history. I’m talking about the announced takeover of America’s largest pork company, Smithfield Foods (SFD), by a company called Shuanghui International. The deal, it is said in dozens of media reports, [...]
