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National Geographic Future of Food Series

National Geographic Future of Food Series

Recipes & Cookbooks – Food, Cooking Recipes from BettyCrocker.Com Plastic-Wrapped Peeled Bananas At Billa Supermarket Chain Prompts Outrage A German-owned supermarket chain with a slogan that promotes common sense has found itself under fire for showing the opposite. Billa supermarkets, which have stores in nine European countries, this week uploaded a photo of peeled bananas on plastic trays covered in plastic wrap. The move immediately drew criticism for what many called wasteful and unnecessary disposable packaging. The picture seems to have since been removed from the page. Austrian Times writes that a spokesman for Greenpeace in Austria, where the bananas were sold, expressed his distaste plainly: "If there is an easy to open ready packed food it's the banana -- peeling it only to pack it in environmentally unfriendly plastic is just madness."

Raw Foods Diet, Raw Food Chef, Raw Vegan Cuisine | RawFoodChef.com Après la faim, l'OMS et la FAO en guerre contre l'obésité | Fanny CARRIER | Santé «Une partie de notre monde déséquilibré meurt encore de faim. Et une autre partie se gave jusqu'à l'obésité à tel point que l'espérance de vie recule à nouveau», a souligné Margaret Chan, directrice générale de l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) à l'ouverture de la deuxième Conférence internationale sur la nutrition (CIN2). Lors de la dernière conférence de ce genre en 1992, plus d'un milliard d'êtres humains ne mangeaient pas à leur faim. Mercredi, leur calvaire n'a pas été oublié, en particulier lorsque la princesse émiratie Haya Bint Al Hussein a raconté à la tribune la mort au Malawi d'un bébé auquel sa mère n'avait même pas donné de nom, sachant la fillette condamnée comme ses aînés par la faim. Mais ce sont aussi les deux milliards de personnes souffrant de carences en vitamines, en iode, en fer... - la «faim cachée» -, et surtout les 500 millions d'adultes et 42 millions d'enfants en surpoids qui ont mobilisé l'attention. «Rendre appétissant» «Il ne faut pas s'arrêter là.

Cooking Channel - Recipes, Shows and Cooking Videos from Top Global Chefs : Cooking Channel GMOs Are Old Hat. Synthetically Modified Food Is The New Frontier The vanillin made through synthetic biology will be used in flavorings sold in the U.S. by International Flavorings & Fragrances. iStockphoto hide caption itoggle caption iStockphoto The vanillin made through synthetic biology will be used in flavorings sold in the U.S. by International Flavorings & Fragrances. iStockphoto Genetically modified organisms are ancient, technologically speaking. But there's a new technology on the scene, adding a twist to the already complicated conversation about GMOs in our food: synthetic biology. In essence, synthetic biology is about designing and building workhorse organisms that can make things more efficiently than nature (or make things we might need that nature doesn't make at all). While there's been far more hype around synthetic biology's potential to create drugs, biofuels and even designer creatures, some of the most recent "synbio" products to hit the market are actually (somewhere) in our food.

.: Culinária Japonesa :. Jornal NippoBrasil São inúmeros os tipos de tsukemono, seus ingredientes, temperos e modo de preparo. Esse processo geralmente inclui verduras e legumes, mas existem tsukemono de melancia e de melão. Os temperos tradicionais são o sal, o farelo de arroz, o shoyu, o missô, o saquê ou os resíduos de seu preparo, mas alguns tsukemono levam mel, açúcar, caqui e outros ingredientes. Senmaizuke Típico de Quioto, tradicionalmente feito com a parte da raiz do shoogoin (um tipo de nabo, que pode ser substituído pelo rabanete branco) finamente fatiada, acrescida de konbu (alga marinha, laminaria) e pimenta vermelha, e temperada com sal, mirin (saquê adocicado) e kooji (arroz fermentado). Narazuke Teria sido criado em Nara, daí o seu nome. Shibazuke Típico de Quioto, o shibazuke é feito com berinjela fatiada misturada com broto de myooga (espécie de gengibre), pimenta vermelha, folha de shiso (perila) e salpicada com sal.

L'huile d'olive va se faire rare | Angus MACKINNON | Cuisine La récolte désastreuse des olives cette année en Italie, comme dans une grande partie du sud de l'Europe, menace non seulement la survie de certaines exploitations, mais aussi la possibilité d'en trouver à bon prix. Les prix de gros de l'huile d'olive explosent, et les consommateurs à travers le monde vont certainement devoir payer plus pour ce produit de base du régime méditerranéen, dont les mérites sont vantés tant par les gourmets que les diététiciens. En Italie, la Toscane et l'Ombrie, dont les collines hors du temps produisent une huile extra-vierge aux arômes subtils, sont particulièrement touchées par les conséquences du temps exécrable qui a dominé cet été. En Espagne, d'où était sortie l'année dernière la moitié de l'huile d'olive produite dans le monde, c'est un cocktail de sécheresse et de bactéries qui risque de diviser la production par deux cette année. Dans le sud de l'Italie, c'est une autre bactérie arrivée d'Amérique du Sud qui ravage les oliveraies. La mouche de l'olive

Italian Food Forever What Does Hunger Look Like? We know too little about hunger, and want to fix that. Raj Patel is the guy we chose to school us. He co-teaches (with Michael Pollan) the Edible Education course at the University of California, Berkeley, and his first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, is an intriguing investigation into our modern conundrum: while there is more hunger in the world than ever before, there is also more obesity. Patel shines light onto our broken global food network, and considers what it might take to change it. What does hunger look like? The standard image of hunger that most of us carry around comes from 1980s TV and magazines, which is to say that it’s an image from the nineteenth century. In South Africa they say, “Eat up, there are children starving in India.” Hunger looks gendered, and it’s certainly race-related—in the United States as much as anywhere else. Hunger also doesn’t necessarily look like bloat or stick-thin limbs.

YES we Cook | Blog de Culinária – Gastronomia, receitas, sabores, vinhos, restaurantes, viagens e… Cooking 7 GMO Infographics You May Have Missed - Organic Authority There is a LOT of information swirling around out there about GMOs—genetically modified organisms—but where do you start? We’ve rounded up seven infographics that distill this information down into bite-sized pictures especially for all you visual learners out there. Take a look and take a stand: share this post with your friends to spread the word about GMOs. 1. Bottom Line: Sixty-four countries around the world require GMO labeling, including all of the European Union, and a bunch of countries we like to think are not as advanced as we are—like Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and China. 2. Bottom Line: Just five companies spend more than half the GMO lobbying money out there, most notably Monsanto at No. 1. 3. Bottom Line: It’s actually relatively cheap and easy to fix our national food problems. 4. Bottom Line: We’re eating a lot of dangerous crap. 5. 6. 7.

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