Friday, January 31, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Côtes de porc au café - Vie pratique - Télématin - France 2
Series of segments this week on using coffee in cooking. Really intriguing.
Bourbon Makers Outside Kentucky Could Spark Innovation | Here & Now
I guess I always think Kentucky when someone mentions bourbon. Or Virginia....
New measures in France
France has launched what seem to be two assaults on food issues. One is to revise the nutritional labeling and move toward an A-E rating system or close to that. The other is to reduce how much food is discarded - gaspillage in French - by changing the dates on packages. They will remove some entirely from some dry goods and others will either make clearer or just have the date limite de consommation - the last date on which you should eat the stuff, as opposed to "best used" - optimale in French - which tends to be unnecessarily short.
La Chine devient premier consommateur mondial de vin rouge, devant la France
That strikes me as a notable evolution!
Restaurant Review: M. Wells Steakhouse in Long Island City, Queens - NYTimes.com
Steak houses are not my cup of tea.
Lessons From McDonald’s Clash With Older Koreans - NYTimes.com
McDonald's certainly has to deal with a lot of clashes every day.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The world according to Gary Shteyngart in four languages | Public Radio International
Great ham story at the beginning.
Lotus : Speculoos : A chaque café, son Lotus
Very cute! Is there a spread of speculos, sort of like peanut butter?
Gaspillage alimentaire - Portail public de l'alimentation
Changes coming in the dates put on French packages. Claim is that 20 kg/person is wasted every year because of not understanding the dates. Does that sound right? I think it must be much higher in the US? Perhaps our solid waste experts in NC can tell us? In France, it is a question of Date Limite Optimale and the expiry date. Do we have this in the US?
This story was more important this morning in the 6:30 AM television news than was the news of the awful unemployment numbers in France!
This story was more important this morning in the 6:30 AM television news than was the news of the awful unemployment numbers in France!
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