Consumers who were worried about contracting COVID-19 have been boosting their immune system by drinking orange juices. Frozen concentrated orange juice, traded in New York, rising 25 per cent to $1.214 a pound since the start of January. US shoppers were stockpiling on the staple, as fears over labour shortage in factories and transportation have…
In India Parsis from Persia were instrumental for popularising and producing carbonated beverages in India two centuries ago, which is now a £7bn industry. A bottle of Pallonji’s Raspberry soda come with a disclaimer “Contains no fruit”Electric red in colour syrupy drink sold in the Irani cafes in Western city of Bombay. Soda had…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his bold budget speech suspended business rates for shops and cafes, Beer, wine and cider duties were frozen as pubs get help, UK interest rates cut in an emergency move, and promises his measures to help the economy tackle the coronavirus outbreak which is expected to bring a “significant” short-term…
The US has approved its first drug AR101 or Palforzia which uses oral immunotherapy treatment for peanut allergies in children given in tiny but increasing doses of peanut protein over a six-month period under medical supervision. The treatment is not a cure and makers warn that the risk of a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction remains.…
Cow & Gate and Tesco are recalling 15 types of baby food jar as a precautionary measure amid concerns some may have been tampered with. Customers who bought food for babies aged over seven months in Tesco stores in the UK are advised not to use them because they may pose a safety risk. The…
The Great universal connects agriculture and climate to trade and exchange to traditions and cultures to identity and politics. Ned Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, is a canon of food-centric histories begun with Mark Kurlansky’s Cod (1997). How we feed ourselves can tell us as much about who we are and where…
Timeline of famous cocktails invention, as it took years of mixing to create the classic drinks which every bartender is familiar with and we order at bars today. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the word cocktail originating in the US. The first recorded use of cocktail as a beverage in the United States appears in…
Fifty-year-oldPizzaExpress chain is under pressure to split UK business from international operations. The pizza chain and debtvholders have consulted financial advisers ahead of third-quarter results next month, which are expected to reveal poor summer trading that will weigh on a balance sheet already laden with £1.1bn net debt. HIG Capital, the distressed debt investor have…
Flying above the Amazon fire reveals skyline is invisible by plumes of smoke and flames rushing across plains like lava. Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, including the northern states of Roraima, Acre, Rondonia and Amazonas. More than 75, 000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months…