#Farmer Creates First Ever Banana-Shaped Shallots Hey look! Nanner shaped shallots. A farmer has created the first-ever shallot to be on British soil shaped like a banana.
Dedicated John Rowswell has invested ten years and thousands of pounds into engineering the popular vegetable by painstakingly cross-pollinating plants.
But finally the bendy bulb named the Barrington Banana after the village where he lives near Ilminster,
Somerset is ready to hit the shelves John, 50, said: I love shallots and wanted to create something that was totally unique for British horticulture.
There are 32 listed types of shallot and theres not one like this one. Only two types are grown from seeds,
including mine, and ours is female while the other is male. Its such a useful vegetable as well as being sweet to taste
and really is delicious to eat. I want this creation to be something I will be remembered for long into the future.
After cross-pollinating three plants he finally crafted his recipe for the vegetable a relative of the onion
which are said to be sweeter than traditional shallots. He has remortgaged his home and estimated he has spent £7, 500 getting the product prepared.
But a new report in the August 10th issue of Current Biology, shows that plant-dwelling pea aphids have designed a strategy to help them avoid that dismal fate:
which in turn lifted corn and soybean prices. The rising grain prices can be expected to at least fulfill,
soybean and wheat harvests. oein recent years weve had said excess capacity Young, whose Omaha-based railroad connects the Midwest with ports in Texas
Soybeans rose 2 cents per bushel to $10. 55. U s. wheat exports are up 36%from last year with the prospects of more sales as the world looks to alternatives to Russian wheat.
U s. soybean exports are up 17%this year, surprising analysts who earlier had worried about Brazils big harvest this year.
soybean and wheat crops will be huge. High wheat prices are likely to be felt most in places such as the Middle east and Africa,
Every day, countless shoppers buy products made by Dole food Company, the worlds largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and fresh-cut flowers as well as packaged and frozen foods.
and nonfiction books some by established authors, others by complete unknowns along with recipes for spinach calzones and 1950s-era manuals for building transistor radios,
This shocking picture, with its piles of oven chips, mini rolls and tubs of ice cream, represents just how much junk food one child in the UK consumes in a year.
188 per 100g 6, 862 calories per year Chips and roast potatoes: The average child eats 14, 965g a year Equal to:
8 bags of oven chips Fat: 5. 4g per 100g=808g per year Sugars: 0. 8g per 100g=120g per year Calories:
but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
Meanwhile, back inside the Mushroom Hotel...You will never thoroughly grasp the concept of water until it grasps you back...
In the future, the square fruit in the grocery store will be found next to the square vegetables and the square poultry sections...
potatoes, oats, corn oil flower vegetables, Different color crops so arranged, when looking from afar it seems like God painted them on a cloth so full of gorgeous color.
Good kid helping to harvest vegetables to bring home before sunset...Clear sky with a rainbow after the rain...
#Reverse Engineering Mcdonalds French fries Scrutinizing Mcdonalds French fries J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of The Food Lab (over at Serious Eats) likes a challenge,
so he decided to reverse engineer what is considered to be worlds most perfect fries: Mcdonalds french fries.
Now, you may disagree that the words oemcdonalds and oegood belong in the same sentence,
let alone oeperfect but theres something in their french fries that makes Americans go nuts. I personally dont get it perhaps
because I didnt grow up eating Mcdonalds fries, but my wife swears by em. And shes not alone:
over 2 million pounds of Mcdonalds fries are consumed every single day. That makes Mickey D the largest potato buyer in the United states. Back to Kenjis quest.
So how hard is it to reverse engineer Mcdonalds french fries? Turns out, it was very, very hard,
so Kenji decided to do the next logical thing: hes going to steal Mcdonalds recipe Anyone with a buck can get a batch of fully cooked Mcdonalds fries,
but I was after something more. I wanted to get fries from the store in their fully frozen state so that
I could examine their surface for clues on how they were parcooked, as well as attempt to fry them myself at home to discover
Id like a large fries please, hold the cooking. oeexcuse me? I know shes already said no in her head,
oeum Id just like the frozen fries please. oeim sorry sir, we just dont do that.
me on a quest for Mcdonalds french fries. But she only likes them really fresh, like straight out of the fryer fresh,
un-conceived son in exchange for a couple dozen frozen potato sticks is grounds for eternal damnation.
and how you can make your very own Mcdonalds fries in the comfort of your own kitchen:
Biogas from sugar beets, grass, maize, including residue in the form of household waste, industrial waste and manure, biodiesel from rapeseed, ethanol from wheat and sugar beets,
#Transforming Albanias 750,000 Mushroom Bunkers Into Hotels, Cottages and Bars Mushroom hotel room Albanias Enver Hoxha ruled from 1945 to 1985
and towards the end made North koreas Kim Jong-il look normal. Being a bit paranoid, he constructed an extraordinary three quarters of a million mushroom-shaped bunkers.
That presents a lot of opportunity for creative repurposing and reuse. Fabrizio Gallanti of Abitare shows some of the more interesting ones;
The purpose of Concrete Mushrooms is to understand and develop the bunkers as assets for Albania.
Mushroom hotel exterior Mushroom bunkers Concrete Mushrooms Preview Albanias 750,000 inherited bunkers. from Concrete Mushrooms on Vimeo.
Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them.
when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies..Saves on having extra bowls to wash. 21.
fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout. 24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers.
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and mixing herbicides into the soil to kill weeds where soybeans will soon be planted. Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug-resistant supergerms
000 acres of soybean fields this spring, more than he has in years. oewere trying to find out what works.
The first resistant species to pose a serious threat to agriculture was spotted in a Delaware soybean field in 2000.
with 10 resistant species in at least 22 states infesting millions of acres, predominantly soybeans, cotton and corn.
Soybeans corn and cotton that are engineered to survive spraying with Roundup have become standard in American fields.
Today, Roundup Ready crops account for about 90 percent of the soybeans and 70 percent of the corn and cotton grown in the United states
or pigweed, whose resistant form began seriously infesting farms in western Tennessee only last year.
Pigweed can grow three inches a day and reach seven feet or more, choking out crops;
#Use Cucumbers and Other Natural Products To Keep Insects Away Repel Pests Naturally! You may not know it,
Home improvement blog Apartment Therapy suggests using cucumbers to keep ants away, along with other natural repellents that keep multi-legged home invaders at bay.
including discs of cucumber. As summer approaches, ants flock to kitchens on the hunt for food crumbs.
Ants are appalled by cucumbers; therefore, the cucumber slices work best when placed near cracks or other areas where ants may enter the home.
You will need, of course to change out those discs every so often as they spoil, and youd probably want to put them on top of wax paper
Well, if youre Roald Dahl, you team up with a couple of other guys to invent a brain shunt to ease the pain.
Dahls son Theo was happily sitting in his baby carriage when it was hit by a taxi cab,
So Dahl partnered with a hydraulic engineer and a neurosurgeon to come up with a better solution the Wade-Dahl-Till valve.
His son had recovered by the time the valve was complete, but it served others well. The three men responsible for the valve all agreed that they would never accept payment for the invention.
Medium for me, please with only one dill pickle, no lettuce and a tomato. Farmers will become expert at producing oejacked-in food stocks with countless variations,
Facts About Urine Some people are fascinated totally with the useless fact their piss smells different after they eat asparagus.
whose primary job it is to sniff out people who have eaten just that vegetable. Technically, the asparagus doesnt make the urine smell,
some people just have the fairly useless ability to pick it out. There have been at least three studies determining how many people have this claim to fame,
But if you feel you must know more about asparagus and pee-smell, youre probably best off waiting for the cartoon.
Asparagus isnt the only thing some people smell in urine. Drinking turpentine is said to make urine smell like a rose
One man claims that large quantities of onions, especially in curried rice, make his piss smell odd,
¢Eating beets can turn your urine red.¢¢Vitamin b2 makes it bright yellow.¢¢Certain blue dyes make it blue-green.¢
¢Rhubarb sometimes makes it brownish or pinkish. Whats really important, though, is not color but intensity.
Some honey makers dilute their honey with sugar beets or corn syrup, their competitors say, but still market it as 100 percent pure at a premium price.
local vegetables and fish) should give you plenty to write home about. Hapuku Lodge The owners of Hapuku Lodge in New zealand know that people come from all over the world for the environmentassive mountains, clear water,
In fact, the healthiest foods I find in the coupon section are frozen vegetables with the aforementioned goo, some buttery cheese concoction.
fresh vegetables or even frozen ones without the goo, whole grains and lean meats and fish.
and vegetables are on sale that week, then move to the sections offering bulk grains (including rice), canned beans and tomatoes, milk, eggs and maybe a piece of meat or fish.
We spend far less at Whole Foods when we are able to purchase these items at a farmers market.
which have candy, chips and some other junk food that people really like. So, how serious are the results of this study?
and also choose snacks like fresh fruit slices, carrots, low fat dairy products, and low fat milk as the main sources.
#Frozen Vegetables More Nutritious Than Fresh Vegetables Frozen vegies contain more nutrients that fresh Frozen vegetables can often contain more nutrients than fresh vegetables,
Up to 45 per cent of important nutrients are lost in fresh vegetable by the time they are consumed. It can take up to two weeks for fresh produce to reach the table from being picked
although the survey found that 80 per cent of shoppers thought the fresh vegetables in supermarkets were less than four days old.
Meanwhile after 16 days green beans have lost 45 per cent of nutrients, broccoli and cauliflower 25 per cent, garden peas up to 15 per cent and carrots 10 per cent.
oethe nutritional content of fresh vegetables begins to deteriorate from the minute they are picked. This means that by the time they end up on our plate,
although we may think were reaping the vegetables full nutritionalb enefits, this is often not the case.
The genome of the pea aphid sequenced by the International Aphid Genomics Consortium, reflects these unusual characteristics
The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,
a corresponding author of the paper. oethus it seems that pea aphids (one among the 4,
It means that the pea aphid probably did a kind of backup of its genetic material.
the pea aphid adapt to its environment. oeanother possibility is that maybe aphids require extra copies of genes
and cooked. 7 Sustainable and local foods. oewe saw an emerging trend in terms of the application of indigenous ingredients in western foods like chili ice cream,
ampalaya ice cream and malunggay chips, Gutierrez said. The economic imperative from poor regions is driving them to collaborate with culinarians to provide a means of living for cottage industries.
and food deserts at the same time, growing fresh, nutritious vegetables in a 10,000 sq ft rooftop greenhouse on top of a six story affordable housing project.
nutritious food grown right above them (the farm is said to be capable of producing fresh vegetables for up to 450 people),
#Potechi Hand Potato chip Grabbing Gadget, Leaves Fingers Clean Potechi Hand Chomping chips at the comp again?
the ergonomic and bionic arm that grips greasy chips & brings them to your lips.
Crunch chips to your hearts content and crunch numbers on your computer without fear the only thing you might double is your dipping,
as shown by the Three Commandments of Chip Gripping: NBCS, NTTS and FECS (respectively No Broken Clutch System, No Touch Table System and Finger Easy Cleaning System.
NBCS ensures that the pressure-sensitive clutch mechanism inside the Potechi Hand gently grips any chip without breaking it.
And like the chocolatier from Roald Dahls hit childrens book, Larry is very protective of the secret process behind making insect candy. oethe owner does not divulge exactly what the process is before they are cooked
12 cacao beans (the beans used to make cocoa and chocolate) could purchase the services of a prostitute,
The scientific explanations for the arousing effects of chocolate are found in phenylethylamine (PEA) and anandamide (AEA.
PEA is the chemical that causes elevated heart rates, increased energy, euphoria and generally any symptom corresponding to feelings of being oein love.
So, apparently, PEA is what makes us drive by our loved ones houses late at night
PEAS cohort, AEA, is a neurotransmitter that acts on the brain in a similar fashion to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC),
7. Steamed Organic Asparagus with Wheatgrass and Bran Many food aphrodisiacs date from a time when it was difficult to eat nutritiously,
Fruits and vegetables are needed to ward off a host of ailments, and in times of myriad nutritional deficiencies, it stands to reason that vitamin-rich foods such as figs, grapes,
avocados and carrots would be considered aphrodisiacs. Even today, these foods are seen as great sources of health and vitality.
asparagus reigns supreme (its main side effect, strong-smelling urine, notwithstanding. In 19th-century France, it was customary for bridegrooms to down three courses of asparagus at their prenuptial dinners.
Perhaps all this greenery led to evenings of fabulous lovemaking, or perhaps it only made the bride wonder
In the wake of modern research, asparagus still holds up as a oesuperfood due to its intense nutritional value.
And although its unknown if the long, firm stalks of asparagus work any true phallic magic, in this era of fast food and poor diet
its surely worth a try. 8. Red Hot Chili pepper Salsa Before Anthony and Flea, there were habeã eros to get everyone hot and sweaty.
For centuries, people have turned to chili peppers to spice up their love lives. In fact, in the 1970s, the Peruvian government, apparently fearing oebig house love,
The theory at work for this aphrodisiac is that chilis ignite in more ways than one.
Think about what happens after you eat a big, mean chili pepper: your palms sweat, your lips burn,
Another theory as to why searingly hot chilis arouse has to do with the pain they inflict.
#Soybean Genome Sequenced: Analysis Reveals Pathways for Improving Biodiesel, Disease Resistance, and Reducing Waste Runoff Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.
Soybean, one of the most important global sources of protein and oil, is now the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence.
The sequence and its analysis appear in the January 14 edition of the journal Nature. The research team comprised 18 institutions,
The DOE, National Science Foundation, USDA and United Soybean Board supported the research. oethe soybean genomes billion-plus nucleotides afford us a better understanding of the plants capacity to turn
With the soybean genetic code now determined the research community has access to a key reference for more than 20,000 legume species
and can explore the extraordinary evolutionary innovation of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis that is so critically important to successful agricultural crop rotation strategies.
Jeremy Schmutz, the studys first author and a DOE JGI scientist at the Hudsonalpha Institute for Biotechnology in Alabama, said that the soybean sequencing was the largest plant project done to date at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. oeit
both targeted because of their promise as biomass feedstocks for biofuels production. oethis is a milestone for soybean research
and promises to usher in a new era in soybean agronomic improvement, said co-author Gary Stacey, Director, Center for Sustainable Energy and Associate Director and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology,
University of Missouri. oethe genome provides a parts list of what it takes to make a soybean plant and,
more importantly, helps to identify those genes that are essential for such important agronomic traits as protein and oil content.
The availability of the soybean genome may provide some key solutions. oewe can now zero in on the control points governing carbon flow towards protein
biochemistry and genetics we can target the development of a soybean with greater than 40 percent oil content.
The availability of the soybean genome sequence has accelerated other soybean trait discovery efforts as well. For example researchers have used the sequence to zero in on a mutation that can be used to select for a line that has lower levels of the sugar stachyose,
which will improve the ability of animals and humans to digest soybeans. In another effort, by comparing the genomes of soybean and corn,
a single-base pair mutation was found that causes a reduction in phytate production in soybean.
Phytate is the form in which phosphorous is stored in plant tissue. Because phytate is absorbed not by the animals that eat the feed,
Limiting phytate production in the soybean could reduce a major environmental runoff contaminant from swine and poultry waste.
Of additional importance for soybean farmers is that the genome sequence has provided access to the first resistance gene for the devastating disease Asian Soybean Rust (ASR.
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Heres his recipe (Pics) 1 kg deodorized cocoa butter 325 g powdered tomato (spray dried or freeze dryed) 60 grams malt vinegar powder 25 grams salt Spices to taste (onion powder, garlic powder, etc) 60 grams mycryo (to temper) At the link,
you can read about the preparation process, as well as see photos of the results. Pictured above are coated bits of chicken in the substance.
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Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
, no bread, maybe a baked potato, and one scoop of vanilla ice cream. Most construction companies banged together job-site shacks of unfinished framing lumber
Herb Mcdonald, now director of special events at the Showboat and formerly a vice president of Del Webb Hotels, remembers that Webb ordered the same meal every time they dined together. oenew York steak, green beans
, no bread, maybe a baked potato, and one scoop of vanilla ice cream. Most construction companies banged together job-site shacks of unfinished framing lumber
It also plans to sell a line of yogurt mixed with vegetables for dogs. For us to provide ourselves with enough security and enough milk
we have seen the mobile phone industry mushroom to include over 5 billion members. Smartphones remain a small subset,
One potato, two potato: They may have been banned from school lunchroom menus, but they re showing up everywhere else.
Andrew Freeman & Co. says the big trend will be have-it-your-way#potatoes, such as make-your-own mashed potatoes with customized mix ins,
fries where you can choose the cut, degree of crispness and dipping sauce; and chips with custom dustings#and dips.
If plain old potatoes sound too unhealthy for your customers, try offering sweet potato fries and dishes.
Breakfast anytime: Customers want what they want when they want it#nd for many, what they want is breakfast.
Restaurants are happy to oblige, since breakfast food ingredients are typically cheaper than other meals. Some are serving breakfast menus all day long;
Sweets from Swedes: Scandinavian sweets, which have long been popular in places with lots of Scandinavians, like Minnesota, are now becoming trendy in urban areas like L a. and New york. What s behind the popularity?
A growing interest in eating healthfully, vegetarian foods and ethnic foods are among the factors in Mediterranean food s popularity#o break out the chickpeas.
Wild turkeys have a gene that makes them resistant to a type of toxic fungus sometimes found in corn and soybeans.
#Congress makes pizza a vegetable on school lunch menus Pizza a vegetable in schools. The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow.
The U s. House of Representatuves passed a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
which would have stripped pizza s status as a vegetable and limited how often French fries could be served,
The action is a win for the makers of frozen French fries and pizza and comes just weeks after food,
THE INFECTED MUSHROOM#8 oz. Sipsmith Gin 8 oz. Club soda 1 bottle Worcestershire sauce Combine in highball glass and serve.
But the bug is also chewing up soybean stalks, reducing some yields recently by as much as a quarter,
But disappearing soybeans is an economic problem.##Researchers are looking for ways to protect soybean crops from Megacopta cribrariawhile still searching for a species that will kill kudzu and leave crops alone.
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#Magnetic resonance used to artificially taste and improve canned tomatoes Improving the taste of tomatoes in an unlikely way.
What makes something taste good is a complex psychological and physiological human process that has made creating artificial tasters,
and improve the flavor of tinned tomatoes during the canning process#Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy,
the researchers were able to determine the levels and types of sugars and amino acids in eighteen different samples of tomatoes.
who rated the tomatoes based on various sensory criteria like flavor, appearance, and texture. By then correlating the results from the spectroscopy with the quantitative and qualitative descriptions from the human testers,
#Scientists grow super broccoli packed with a big nutritional punch Super broccoli A new breed of the broccoli has been unveiled by British scientists that experts say packs a big nutritional punch.
The new broccoli was grown specially to contain two to three times the normal amount of glucoraphanin,
Vegetables are a medicine cabinet already, #said Richard Mithen, who led the team of scientists at the Institute for Food Research in Norwich, England,
that developed the new broccoli. When you eat this broccoli#you get a reduction in cholesterol in your blood stream#
he said. Glucoraphanin works by breaking fat down in the body, preventing it from clogging the arteries.
Itisonly foundin broccoli in significant amounts. To create the vegetable, sold as super broccoli, #Mithen and colleagues crossbred a traditional British broccoli with a wild,
bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big doseof glucoraphanin. After 14 years, the enhanced hybrid was produced,
which has been granted a patent by European authorities. No genetic modification was used. It s been on sale in select stores in California and Texas for the last year,
the broccoli will be rolled out across the US. The super vegetable is part of an increasing tendency among producers to inject extra nutrients into foods,
ranging from calcium-enriched orange juice to fortified sugary cereals and milk with added omega 3 fatty acids.
In Britain, the new broccoli is sold as part of a line of vegetables that includes mushroomswithextra Vitamin d,
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and vegetables is one of the most important things you can do to improve your health. 4. KNOW
Studies suggest only a third of British adults eat the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day,
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