Dozens of trucks an hour setting off from the avocado belt in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan for the US, armed robbers are zeroing in on the fast-growing Avocado multi-billion-dollar industry. The rise in Avocado related crime has turned part of the state into no-go areas even for the police. Juan whose family has farms…
The Coronavirus had been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “ The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO chief. The concern is that it could spread…
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 UK’s Competition and Markets Authority have launched a last minute review into Takeaway.com and Just Eat’s £6bn merger, throwing one of the UK’s biggest tech deals in recent years into doubt. The probe follows a months-long review of Amazon’s planned minority stake in Deliveroo, Just Eat’s biggest rival . Both cases are investigated on…
Rock Victoria, a Sri Lankan national, set up a cashew factory in Quilon (Kollam), South India in 1920 for processing of cashew nuts, with Swaminathan as a worker who later became a prominent cashew businessman. The first batch of cashews exported from India was from Kollam to USA in 1920 by Indian Nut Company, established…
Climate Change spoiled the production of onions, one of India’s most important vegetables, causing shortages and raised wholesale price rises up almost 500 per cent. Ever changing erratic weather with extreme heat followed by heavy excess rainfall from the annual monsoon season has led to a sharp fall in production in India’s rural key…
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…
World Vegan day is on November 1st. The Vegan Society says half of all vegans are now aged between 15 and 34 and more adults have switched to a plant-based diet in the last three years. Veganism actually existed more than two hundred years ago in1874. Towards the end of World War II, Donald Watson…
PENNY’S PUMPKIN SOUP for HALLOWEEN TWENTY NINETEEN. The ingredients are oh so simple for this warming soup and it is up to you if you choose to include finely chopped onions or leave them completely out. What you do need is preferably a hand held electric soup wizzer, a good mashing implement or a liquidiser.…
Review of “NOTHING FANCY” about Mexican recipe book writer Diana Kennedy There is no onE on the planet who does not enjoy good food. We share that as a very common thread throughout the world and through the generations. I feel sure that this wonderful lady who is now 95, Diana Kennedy would agree, and…