Well, yes, in France and Italy for sure, but they know they are eating horse. In the UK and Ireland, "beef lasagna" has been found to contain major equine meat, some of it possibly tainted with a veterinary med not suitable for human consumption.
More from the Irish Times here.
Sweet potatoes most likely were carried to Polynesia well before the Spanish took the native Andean crop with them on voyages. According to Science Magazine, " a new study suggests that the (sweet potato's) genetics may be the key to unraveling another great age of exploration, one that predated Eur…
Hankering for a molasses raspberry thyme beer you drank once in Portland, Maine? Find it--maybe--at beermenus.com. Search by beer, establishment, place, map...
Radioactive contamination of fish caught in the vicinity of the damaged Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant remains consistently high, according to a report in Common Dreams. This means it is likely the plant still is leaking radioactive material.
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The National Museum of American History has launched its first all-food project called FOOD, Transforming the American Table, on show in Washington, DC for the foreseeable future.
And--Running through August 11 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, "Kitchen" examines the whole…
Had he not drugged and fed like crazy and died at 42, Elvis would have been 78, yesterday. His BDay caused NPR to come up with story of a night flight to Denver Elvis made with his best buds, in order to eat the following at the Colorado Mine Company restaurant:
"Take a whole loaf of Italian bread …
They're tasty, they keep the barnyard tidy..., and they plow, if you speak to them properly. Pigs, the sustainable farmer's best pal.
In case you missed the recent pageant...., here is exuberant Miss Venezuela, Irene Sofia Esser Quintero, bedecked and festooned in chocolate. Oh yes!
Miss Guam wore a few orange oyster shells, just a few, and that sent us to Google to discover more about the fabled orange oysters of Guam.
Via Re…
"This past Mother’s Day, a buyback program in Los Angeles brought in 1,650 guns, each in exchange for a prepaid Visa or grocery-store card of up to $200, depending on the gun."
Via Matt Miller, WaPost
Bacon "band-aids," of course. Why not? Via Perpetual Kid.
Those bacon people sent us an email re their bacon-scented shaving cream...has this baconny thing not gone on long enough?? Though we do wish them well, and big bucks, because it's tough out there in the foodish gift world, yep.
Syrians, killed buying bread in markets, killed attempting to care for their olive groves, now live in ancient Roman caves, under their groves, "trying to eat."
Just as a bottle labeled Cognac must derive from Cognac in France, now so too must tea labeled Darjeeling actually come from that specific Himalayan terrain.
