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Swedish food aims to knock off French

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:47:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this has to be the best joke i've heard

The Swedish government announced a new vision on Tuesday aiming to knock France off its pedestal and establish Sweden as haute cuisine leader of the world.

Half of Swedes plan their holidays around a concerted effort to experience culinary delights. Recent changes to the tax system has left Swedes with more take home pay and therefore able to enjoy that little extra when treating themselves to an evening out at a restaurant.

Now the government aims to go one step further and promote the country's cuisine.

The agriculture minister himself prefers homely food and game washed down with a cool glass of milk. Some of the homely Swedish dishes that the minister has available to him could include meatballs and potatoes, pickled herring and pancakes.

trans fat banned from NYC

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:17:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.modbee.com

Making cannoli is serious business in New York. It's a dessert so tempting that even a hit man in the "Godfather" couldn't leave a box behind.

But even the most respected chefs of this and other pastries are being ordered to make changes by Tuesday - the day New York's trans fat ban takes full effect.

New York is the first American city to adopt such a stringent rule.

ban extends to almost all prepared food in restaurants, bakeries, cafeterias, salad bars and food carts.

The artery-clogging substance was first banned from cooking oils last year.

Chefs who relied on trans fats to make their pie crusts flaky, their crackers crispy and their muffins moist have worked overtime finding substitute ingredients

supply companies have introduced

replacements for the partially hydrogenated vegetable oils that are the biggest source of trans fats

Americans have been baking with vegetable shortening loaded with trans fats since the invention of Crisco

China ban Australia taking own food to Olympics

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:37:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: team nutritionist Professor Louise Burke said the products, supplied by team sponsors Uncle Toby's and Nestle, were crucial to Aussie athletes because they provided familiar foods in the heat of competition

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

FORGET about Tibet and human rights - 2008 may become known as the year of the Vegemite riots following China's ban on Australia taking its own food to the Olympic Games.

In another example of the iron-clad control Beijing is trying to exert on foreigners, Games organisers have told Australia it must source all food from within China.

It is understood the Chinese have introduced the ban to maximise revenue for local food producers.

The policy is an abrupt departure from previous Olympics, when Australian athletes have been allowed to bring in foods to meet their strict dietary needs.

The Australian ban comes after American athletes caused a furore in China by boycotting local food.

The US Olympic Committee plans to transport its own produce because of fears about China's public health and food standards.

"A lot of the food we are taking is not readily available in China. We would like to take these products because they help our athletes feel at home," he said.

UEFA + McDonalds=piss off little fries!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:43:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thelocal.se

The European football association, UEFA, is demanding that a Swedish fast food restaurant close down during the under-21 European football tournament.

The association is requesting that an outlet of the competing Swedish Max hamburger chain connected to Borås Arena close its doors for four days in June

Fast food giant McDonald’s is one of Uefa’s largest sponsors and competes with Max in Sweden.

I assume that the city of Borås will solve this. It’s not uncommon for Uefa to demand that the organization’s sponsors get exposure when big matches and tournaments are arranged by Uefa,”

st patrick's day green beer

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:11:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: here's how to make it!!!

Clip Source: au.f382.mail.yahoo.com

How to Make Your Own

Green Beer

(in less than 30 seconds)

Ingredients:

16 ounces golden lager

3-6 drops of green food coloring

Directions:
Pour beer into a chilled pint-size glass, add food coloring and mix. Repeat and enjoy!

rude food

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:29:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: stick these in your kitchen and invite the neighbors for a dinner... come orgy

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Tags: rude, food, naughty, names

NYCity Restaurants & 6559 Menus online

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:34:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: gawd, wish we had that in sydney!!

Clip Source: www.menupages.com

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Tags: online, menu, restaurant, nyc

Food Additive Doubles Kids' Hyperactivity

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:44:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Since the early 1900's, sodium benzoate has been used as a food preservative. It is utilized in a wide range of preservative applications due to its antimicrobial action combined with its low toxicity and low taste.
"Limits of sodium benzoate in foods is not because of toxicity, but it will impart a taste that will make some foods unacceptable. This is a
very non-toxic compound and foods containing presevatives are usually much healthier since harmful microorganism growth is inhibited, oxidation is checked, and nutrients, natural or added, are saved."

Clip Source: discovermagazine.com

Common Food Additive Doubles Kids' Hyperactivity

Sodium benzoate seems to be much more than just a preservative...

A team from the University of Southampton in England measured levels of hyperactivity in 153 three-year-olds and 144 eight- and nine-year-olds

two mixtures with artificial coloring and the preservative sodium benzoate, or a plain fruit juice placebo

The higher the GHA, the greater the hyperactivity

On average, the children who drank the additive concoctions showed a near doubling of GHA scores compared to those on the placebo.

“The study shows that, on average, children have higher levels of hyperactivity when taking a drink with additives in it compared to their behavior when taking fruit juices alone,” says Jim Stevenson, head of the study.

Pairing the right wine to food

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:55:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Next, look at the flavour intensity. Food with strong flavours like Chinese, or Indian curries, want equally vibrant and fruity wines
Perhaps the most important thing to know when deciding what wine goes best with which food is what is actually going on in your mouth. We taste sweetness on the tips of our tongues, acidity on the sides, salty in the middle and bitterness at the back - Then there is the fiendishly amazing umami, the fifth taste.
Umami is sexy but it hates the powerful wines,"
illustrated by sampling the various foods mentioned - The sweet red apple makes your lips turn down with sauvignon blanc, but suck on a lemon then sip the same wine and it's like the floodlights have come on inside your mouth

Clip Source: www.tonight.co.za

Katinka van Niekerk, who is a food and wine pairing specialist, has a very definite method for this exercise

she talks about pinotage being the slutty wine with fishnet stockings and decolletage which goes with everything

sauvignon blanc

she confides, is always on the "edge of a nervous breakdown".

Although she says she can understand the interior decorative value of matching red wine with red meat and white with fish, Van Niekerk dismisses this colour co-ordination as hopelessly outdated.

Instead of rules, Van Niekerk prefers to offer three important tips. "If you have a rule, you should do your best to break it," she instructs with a smile.

very simple. First, match the weight of the wine with the weight of the food. For example, beef stroganoff - or even a pepper burger from a fast food chain; it's the same principle. That needs an equally creamy white wine. Something like a salad or fish would prefer something lighter so you'd steer away from the heavy reds

Tags: wine, food, pairing

eat in China at your peril!

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:20:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this involves all the canned and processed stuff that countries are importing from China- have been found to be high in toxic chemical

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

China Being Poisoned by Its Food Industry, Says Author

Chinese journalist Zhou Qing, a critic of the regime, unearthed political dynamite in his two-year investigation of China's food industry.

His book is a dark account of a ruthless food mafia that stops at nothing to maximize its profits, for example by using contraceptives to accelerate the growth of fish stocks, lengthening the shelf-life of cucumbers with highly toxic pesticide DDT, using hormones and poisoned salt in food production and putting absurd amounts of antibiotics in meat.

"I can only warn you never to go in a restaurant." The danger of food producers being taken to task for their actions is slight. Everything disappears in China's endless bureaucracy

In early December the Shanghai city council slapped an export ban on products made by the Shanghai Mellin Food Company after cancer-causing substances were found in its pork products.

Poisoned baby food has led to severe diseases and physical deformities.

Tags: chinese, food, dangerous

What the World Eats

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:31:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: interesting to see bread and pasta for one family and grains for another to packaged and processed stuff for others.

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City

Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or $317.25

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily

Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23

Clip Source: muzich.blogspot.com

Kuwait: The Al Haggan family of Kuwait City

Food expenditure for one week: 63.63 dinar or $221.45