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There’s interesting article in Wired about how the source of the E.coli outbreak in Europe, that killed at least 44 people and infected over 3700, has been tracked to a supplier in Egypt. And why the outbreak is likely to reoccur at any time in the next three years. In a couple of . . . → Read More: The E.coli (EHEC/STEC) outbreak in Europe could continue for the next 3 years
Recipe Search on Google I just noticed – Google has added a recipe search item to their home page. You can filter the results by ingredients, cooking time or by calories. To get included in the results, sites need to tag their recipes using rich snippets. Rich snippets can also be . . . → Read More: Rich Snippets – Google recipe search I’m doing a bit more cooking since I took early retirement – Ruth is still working, so it falls to me to prepare the evening meal in the week. I like messing about modifying recipes and these guides to herbs and spices are a useful summary of their properties: The Kitchen’s Quick Guide . . . → Read More: Guides to herbs and spices
An egg-cuber from thekitchenstore.com There is no end to the number of unusual gadgets that you can buy for your kitchen. Dark Roasted Blend has a selection, with photos. You can, for example, get a slimline toaster that produces toast with smilies on each piece, a rabbit-shaped mixer or a roll-up microwave cooker. . . . → Read More: Quirky kitchen appliances We have an egg poacher, which is a good few years old. Probably a number of decades old, in fact: Our trusty egg poacher You add water below the four “cups”, grease each cup with a little olive oil before adding an egg and let it boil with the lid on until the . . . → Read More: Microwaved poached eggs cook the yolk too fast If global warming hasn’t frightened your socks off yet, then take a look at these two news items: 1. The UK is likely to run out of soil in the next 60 years. Other countries are similarly affected: An estimated 75 billion tonnes of soil is lost annually with more than 80 per . . . → Read More: Running out of… The Guardian reports that the mafia has started selling cheap bread in Naples, attracting lots of customers, but the local authorities warn that the bread could cause cancer and that it is not so easy to identify. Originally, it was sold from car boots, but now they are also supplying shops, making it difficult . . . → Read More: Risky – eating bread in Naples Andrew Wheeler posted the following list on his blog Very Good Taste a couple of days ago, with these instructions (I don’t usually do these questionnaires, but this one took my fancy. If you think the list of what I’ve eaten and what I wouldn’t eat looks strange, I stopped eating meat about 15 . . . → Read More: What have you tried from this list? The New Yorker asks if the world’s food system is collapsing, and looks at how modern agriculture has defied the predictions of Thomas Malthus in his book “Essay on the Principle of Population” written in 1798. The picture is not pretty: American consumers demand huge amounts of cheese and meat. One consequence is . . . → Read More: Is our food supply collapsing? From today’s Guardian: The European Union is preparing plans to allow pig remains to be used to feed poultry. The practice – banned in Europe after the BSE crisis 10 years ago – would save farmers millions of pounds as prices of cereal feed for chickens soar, say officials in Brussels. More > The . . . → Read More: EU to allow chicken-feed to contain pig remains |
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