James bond would lose his signature refreshment, as his martinis feature gin and vodka. Gin gave Dutch courage to 17th century soldiers before battle-the word gin comes from
Juniper berries from MPF via Wikimedia. Fight fire with fire. Send Puya chilensis against Phytophthora austrocedrae:
Yet tacitly, consumers are thumbing their collective noses at CO2 goals through the addictive use of home gadgets and gizmos that feeds their infotainment habit.
Now, we're able to extract contaminants from the wastewater--for example salt, which can then be used for road salt here in the Northeast.
Today, we want the natural gas because it meets the needs of global climate change, but it taints our water supply.
so it can be used for cooking oil and in animal feed. However, when the GM CROPS persist in the wild
Study authors Jody Banks and David Salt in a statement: Potentially you could take these genes
In fact, the botanists speculate that one possible explanation for the fern's arsenic storage ability is to discourage animals from dining on fern salad.
Barcodes are on everything from drug vials to hamburger packages. Actually, there's dozens of different types of barcodes.
the lucky gardeners get to spend some off-time working with herbs and veggies and work together in a non-work way.
tapioca and wheat, says algae-based plastic could replace up to 50 percent of petroleum content found in traditional plastic resin.
Growers, grocers satisfy ripening taste for organic in Mexicomexico CITY Organic products are muscling their way onto grocery shelves in Mexico,
Black beans and pinto beans, rice and amaranth, soups and dressings, milk, yogurt, cheese and coffee, sweets and jams:
It also sells to the increasing number of independently owned groceries dedicated to organic and natural foods that have sprouted up in major urban areas.
The company's growth trajectory recently attracted the interest of Monterrey, Mexico-based Herdez, a maker of salsas, canned goods and juices.
The reasons for this situation range from poor engineering and agricultural practices, inadequate transport and storage infrastructure through to supermarkets demanding cosmetically perfect foodstuffs
Carleton Garden Blogspot A few food courses on Smartplanet: Rooftop farms budding in Beijing, Hong kong How to solve a universally irritating problem The simple plan that saved a supermarket chain millions The Morning Briefing:
pomegranates, lemons and herbs and says she has switched completely her family s diet to organic food.
which affects the liver, in spinach and bitter gourd. In May, the Delhi High court ordered the government to conduct surprise checks to test vegetables
pesticides are being linked to cancer especially in the state of Punjab, the bread basket of India,
Hong kong cracks down on trade in baby formulamilk formula is sold alongside Chinese herbs. HONG KONG--Hong kong parents have been contending with a frustrating shortage of infant milk formula.
but most of the city s meat, vegetables and seafood are imported from Mainland china. Overall, the agriculture industry in Hong kong has gone into decline over the past few decades.
22-year-old Wing said. And it s healthier. Each small section of this part of the farm is rented out for US$20 per month It s just human nature,
E-Farm has started recently teaching a course on aquaponics a sustainable farming method it uses
The rainwater filters through a teak patio and garden of cherry, orange and lime trees and carpets of lavender, mint and thyme into storage tanks.
and converting it into fermentable sugars so it can be refined into fuel is too expensive to be commercially viable.
and the need to use more farmland to produce feedstocks like switchgrass and corn stovers.
They ve also incorporated sustainability into every aspect of people's lives, down to chickens and beehives in people's backyards.
You get everything from kale and melon to eggs and dairy. We just have a short growing season.
Can shoppers use food stamps at the farmers market? Yep. Speaking of lobster, how s your water quality?
pureed applesauce in a toothpaste tube or compressed cubes of sandwiches or breads or desserts.
We had freeze-dried items, like shrimp cocktail which has been with us for many years. About the year 2000 when we were starting to be on International Space station up to six months,
They will use tortillas like a wrap or a sandwich. We want the astronauts to be able to eat out of the food package with utensils.
and we have to make sure the food has a sauce. Because crumbs will float around--they can get everywhere from in your eye to into equipment--there are fans
That's one reason we don't bring up a lot of bread or cookies because they create crumbs.
but first we did an assessment to find the cracker that won't break too easily.
If you drink your coffee with cream and sugar, we have to add the cream
and sugar to the package before we send it up. If they think they like black coffee
and they get up there and say,'I really want it with cream, 'unless they beg,
borrow or steal, they don't have that option. We've gotten a lot of anecdotal reports that the food just doesn't taste the same on orbit.
whether it's macaroni and cheese or meatloaf or mashed potatoes. Some of the other items may not taste as good as they would have
if you were at home. Do astronauts determine their own menus? We have approximately 180 items on our food list.
or they're fresh food items such as meats and candies. Many crews will host a special meal with the International Space station crew.
For example, the crew that's hopefully going up in the beginning of December is hosting a meal which has spreads, cheeses, meats, a few entrees and cookies for dessert.
What are some of the most popular food items for astronauts? Shrimp cocktail is very popular.
Some of our meat items, like barbecue brisket or meatloaf, can be popular. Tortillas are extremely popular.
It depends on their own personal tastes. You mentioned fresh food options. Does this mean fruits and vegetables?
Fresh foods are defined as foods that aren't on our official list. They can bring up items like apples or oranges.
Carrot sticks and celery will last a little while. Some will bring up more delicate items, such as tomatoes or kiwi or avocado.
Or maybe they ask for special candies or chocolates or a beef jerky of their preference or hot sauce.
A lot of the ways they get around the flavor loss issue is by adding condiments --whether it's mustard and ketchup or hot sauce, soy sauce, horseradish.
How do you maintain the nutritional value of foods when they require a shelf life of several years?
and vegetables or process wheat flour and make pasta or breads or make a pasta sauce. We're looking at
what kinds of recipes we would use and how much time they would take. As we go from simply hydrating
or heating the foods to preparing a meal, that will provide some fresher foods and therefore foods that are higher in nutrition.
and got a job at Dunkin'Donuts in their research and development lab. The entire summer, the director of the lab was trying to persuade me to go into food science.
It holds onto nutrients, water, microorganisms. It improves crop yield. Because it's made from decomposing waste that would
and to alter their diets accordingly. New Scientist describes the wirelessly connected device: Coated with a special membrane that helps it survive the harsh conditions inside,
A pair of wings pops out after it enters the stomach and stops it from moving beyond the rumen-the chamber in a cow
scientists hope to alter the cows diets to produce Šlow methane  animals. CSIRO is also researching exactly how diet
Ten thousand of these suckers could fit on the cross-section of a human hair. The scientists took more than one million nanotrees to form a square centimeter-sized photoelectrochemical cell.
A dozen garden boxes brimming with 20 heirloom tomato varieties, peppers, squash and eggplant are begging for her attention outside in the Northern California sunshine.
Then you can choose to let it look like a mess until harvest. It was always nice after a hard day
if she was given enough time to clean up the organizational mess she inherited at Yahoo! She answers without hesitation:
she talked her way into a job as a miniskirt-wearing cocktail waitress, opting out of the night computer operator position that was her other option
In Beijing, turning Kung Pao Chicken into organic fertilizerbeijing--For a place which deals with tons of rotting garbage each day,
Every evening trucks carrying half-eaten cabbage, decomposing Kung Pao Chicken, and other food discarded in restaurants
whether Chinese city dwellers can be persuaded to  associate food waste processing with the fragrance of freshly picked strawberries, rather than rotting meat.
and Matã Â as Carrizo's involved a late-night dinner and a napkin doodle.
Nobody knows exactly how many people around the planet think of bugs as lunch. Some estimates say that 70 percent of the world's cultures have a tradition of eating insects
while foraging for herbs, Moran met a Danish schoolteacher who had been serving local ants to his students,
Now you're going to taste my pork. Now it's my pork. Here's my beef, you'll taste my beef.
Then chicken. I don't want to feel closed in, or just accept that this is the way it is.
Once in a while we find new flavors that help push our restaurant forward. Right now, these three ants we've found are making our food better.
and creamy larvae blobs, sweet and mild with flavors reminiscent of egg and warm honeydew. The lab have used them to make mayonnaise and a particularly tasty high-protein granola.
Reade explained that bee larvae were an excellent gateway insect for breaking down the mental barriers people have to ingesting bugs.
The staff at the Nordic Food Lab say there are many reasons for convincing Westerners to add insects to their diet.
Cows and chickens still have an important role to play in a healthy biosystem. Even so, conventional livestock uses 70 percent of the world's agricultural land.
grasshoppers, for example, provide the same protein content as beef with less fat. They have a high food conversion rate--according to the U n. Food and agriculture organization,
crickets need six times less feed than cattle to produce the same amount of protein. With these facts in mind, the European union is investing some 4 million euros in a feasibility study of insects as protein in animal feed.
An important aspect of any such study is pathology: knowing which insects are safe to eat and
If a certain insect is part of a human diet somewhere in the world, it is more likely to be pathogen-free.
and salt water (the salt keeps the pathogenic microorganisms at bay as well as enabling the enzymes, some beneficial bacteria and various strains of yeast to flourish).
After a few minutes he had a thick greenish concoction that resembled pea soup. Then he took a bag of raw,
Reade whizzed the mixture together until it turned the color of chocolate mousse with little brown specks.
and a liquid the Food Lab would use to flavor their staff meals. We can't hope to make other people incorporate these foods into their diet
if we don't said, Evans. Not every experiment is a success. Reade recalls trying to make bagoong, a fermented prawn condiment, with langoustine heads.
I tried to use the math, to work out the dry weight and the wet weight,
how much salt was needed. He knew he had gotten something wrong when he opened the box in which it was fermenting
He does not consider them a main dish but rather a new toolbox of flavors,
like a spice or a condiment. They offer him one more way to connect with the land
The ants have become an ingredient in two new dishes at Noma, ground into paste with a bit of thyme oil as a binder (and less recognizable than when served alive).
One dish I tasted consisted of a fresh milk curd covered with wild blueberries mixed with ant paste.
The insects added a bright citrus note, followed by an aftertaste of something wild and alien--an almost aggressive flavor
 While the Hong kong public has welcomed new government initiatives to conserve heritage buildings, debates now rage over what s worth keeping
Dunkin Donuts also opened earlier this year and Starbucks is expected to arrive soon. But Mcdonald s 270 outlets in India are a small fraction of its 33,000 outlets worldwide.
and cottage-cheese based items that are hugely popular. It also maintains separate kitchens to prepare vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.
Mcdonald s non-vegetarian menu in India excludes beef and pork. Hindus, who consider the cow sacred
don t eat beef. Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean, don t eat pork. Fish and chicken are safe bets.
The New york times calculates Mcdonald s accounts for 3 percent of beef consumption in the United states, which works out to 1. 37 million cows per year killed for Mcdonald s in the United states alone.
Which is perhaps why some right-wing Hindu groups are creating a fuss about Mcdonald s setting-up shop near religious sites.
Å It s an attempt not only to make money but also deliberately humiliate Hindus, Â S. Gurumurthy,
is also set to become the world s largest beef exporter in the world. A report by the U s. Department of agriculture, released in April 2012,
But there is a cow-buffalo distinction. The exported meat is water buffalo. The killing of male and female cows or even milk-giving buffaloes is prohibited by federal law.
Srivastava, however, doesn t see how a Mcdonald s opening up near Vaishno Devi Šhumiliates  Hindus.
not just a plain one-size-fits-all potato patty, Â she writes in The Guardian.
His vegetarian burger consists of a bun and a potato patty with a mix of tangy and sweet sauces available for Rs. 10 (18 cents.
and herbs oe flooded the scene. A range of funky new bars appeared to supply a newly youthful clientele.
 A longtime vegetarian with a macrobiotic mother, Beddard grew up familiar with the health food scene in the US.
or as feed for livestock, there is no clear cut explanation for why the green fell out of favor.
 Pastry chef and Paris food blogger David Lebovitz has written about the trials of finding kale in Paris.  Å
and recipes to help show consumers how kale can be used in daily meals. Far from a food trend like hamburger or bagels in Paris
Beddard hopes that kale will go the way of the parsnip, becoming widely accepted in French cooking and in markets across the country.
trees and cakes that are included in the display and borrowed from booth partners as far away as England.
Poor children between the ages of six months to 14 years will be provided with free lunch.
The Midday Meal scheme is the biggest school feeding program in the world. It feeds 120 million children in over 1. 26 million schools and centers across the country.
The Indian government says that livelihood is already a component of its plans to conserve biodiversity.
but that's pie in the sky for now. Back to the present and the ipad.
With his recent liver transplant Apple CEO Steve jobs had a serious brush with his own mortality.
and expose notebook innards to bagel crumbs and spilled coffee. Â The ipad's soft keyboard is on screen
which provides nutrients for the plants. In turn, the plants clean up the water for the fish.
Is the green shade of Green Means Go, a juice with kale, spinach and ginger
An evolving industry From software products that can take a juice bottle from sketch to virtual store shelf in a matter of hours to innovations that make frozen dinners safer and more sustainable
Fresh, refrigerated pastas, rather than the dried kind found in the pasta aisle, are only available
for example, was the first North american company to incorporate post-consumer recycled plastic into its frozen meal trays.
It might be too soon for an interactive jar of pickles. But the future of food packaging looks toward even more interactivity, Cooksey said.
Some kids are afraid to see the chickens in the petting zoo. Teachers ask what can we do,
Kraft surpasses several sustainability goalsnext time you're wondering which brand of hot dogs to grab for the summer barbecue
Energy and nutrients are moved through the ecosystem this way, and the interspecies relationships evolve and adapt to variations in the climate.
For example, bees, birds and some bats might all visit the same flower for nectar, but at different times of the day and year.
Dunkin'Donuts: not the best coffee in America Will coffee soon be a thing of the past?
and corn-based sugar. Some of these specific programs date from the Great depression. Because current market incentives, imposed by the government
encourage factory production of protein and mass production of high fructose corn syrup, we have (surprise) super-cheap, mass-produced chicken, pork, beef,
and sweet treats. Changing those policies won't be easy, because there's a vast industry--much of it now geared to export--that has grown fat on those policies.
Because we subsidize exports of grain, sugar and protein, African, Asian and South american markets can't develop.
and feed, give them to small local truck farms and sustainable production methods. Then export expertise,
which is more valuable than corn syrup anyway. But what do I know? I'm fat
The video above, a 20-year old Happy Meal commercial, is from happier times. Today you're more likely to see Ronald Mcdonald portrayed as a zombie, a demon,
and culminating last week in the Center for Science in the Public interest threatening to sue the company over its Happy Meals.
This follows by less than a month a decision by Santa clara County in California to ban Happy Meals.
The ordinance sets calorie (460) and salt (600 mg) limits for meals that can be promoted with toys as premiums.
and to the unhealthiness of fast food diets. Mcdonald's tried to dodge all this by making apple slices an option, next to french fries, in its meals.
Its opponents are calling that a dodge. The answer here does not likely sit with legislators or law courts.
It would not be hard to get Happy Meals inside the Santa clara law. Make low fat milk the standard drink,
or adults) to larger meals geared to bigger bodies. If you think it's crazy to imagine a 40 year old buying the equivalent of a Happy Meal,
you haven't been to a ballgame and watched some dad dig around a box of Cracker Jack looking for the prize.
Mcdonald's actually has tried to be a good corporate citizen in the past. It added salads to its menu.
It complied with labeling laws. Look at its international operations and you'll see it following a host of dietary and marketing rules set by culture and government around the world In other words,
this doesn't have to become a conflict. It's a challenge for food science to mass produce healthier meals in ways that can be loaded on trucks
and delivered by teenagers. But it's not an impossible challenge. My guess is that, at some point this summer,
The company that can deliver a healthy fast food meal is going to make a lot of money and earn a lot of goodwill.
Citing a recent Harvard paper on red meat, he argued that even the smallest amount of red meat could increase your chances of dying a variety of causes including cardiovascular disease and cancer...
People who do have animals off their menu are likely to live healthier and longer life than those who have animals on their menu,
In contrast, Adrian Richardson, chef of La Luna Bistro and author of Meat (2009), said eating meat was a natural thing,
healthy life if you follow a balanced diet that includes eating meat responsibly. You know what kills you?
Eating too much meat, too many chips, donuts, hotdogs, pies, and all of the processed stuff that s offered today,
there is no way of having ecologically sustainable beef, and despite being the more humane option,
Per kilo of beef produced, cattle on grass produce at least 50%more methane than cattle fed grain
If everyone ate a Western diet, we would need two planet Earths to feed us,
Food security Peter Singer argued that we waste most of the food value of the grains and soybeans we feed to animals.
If all markets were to remove meat â Â food production would decline, food prices would increase
Meat today is the new asbestos, more murderous than tobacco, he said. Singer also argued,
If you don t eat meat, good. If you do eat meat, which is most of the world s population,
it s how you choose that meat that s important, and that s what the debate should be about.
Chef Adrian Richardson As good as the'real'thing? Richardson made no secret of his love for eating meat,
saying it was a natural thing to do. I love meat, I love cooking meat, I like eating meat,
and I love serving meat to other people, he declared. If it has a pulse
I can cook it. On the affirmative team, ex-food writer and journalist Veronica Ridge validated her argument with mouth-watering descriptions of vegetarian and vegan recipes.
She contended that taking animals off the menu encouraged innovation and creativity. At the world s top restaurant today, you can have a wonderfully entertaining
inventive and delicious meal made for you without slaughter, she said. There has been a revolution in vegetarian
and vegan cooking and eating in the past decade, Ridge declared. A new generation of cooks are using vegetable, spices, nuts, seeds herbs in incredible ways.
Gone are the mung beans and bland wholemeal pies that accompanied the whiff of 1970s hippydom.
Using Yotam Ottlenghi as an example, Ridge claimed that much of the pleasures of eating today can be attributed, in part,
She also said that meat substitutes can be just as good as the real thing and used New york columnist Mark Bittman s blind chicken taste test to support her point that,
you can eat brilliantly without slaughtering animals. Join the debate According to the Wheeler Centre, 65%of the Melbourne audience supported the proposition,
because it wanted assurances that the drugs did not contain allergenic plant sugars or pesticides.
the U s. Supreme court has lifted a ban on genetically modified alfalfa seeds. The move will likely affect the regulation of other biotech crops,
Monsanto engineered the alfalfa seeds to be resistant to the weed killing herbicide Roundup Ready,
Today, GM alfalfa seeds make up 1 percent of the market. Some 95 percent of beets grown in the U s. carry the Monsanto bacterial gene that resists the herbicide glyphosate, present in Roundup Ready.
The U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) approves the sale of GM alfalfa seeds. 2005 onward: More than 5, 500 farmers plant the GM alfalfa seeds. 2006:
The Center for Food safety sues the USDA for not investigating the impact of GM seeds on the environment. 2007:
the U s. District court for the Northern District of California bans the sale of GM alfalfa seeds on the grounds that the USDA violated federal law by not reviewing the seeds'environmental risk.
According to the USDA's preliminary assessment of the impact, Roundup Ready alfalfa will not adversely affect the environment.
A significant letter to USDA Secretary Vilsack points out that alfalfa is a major source of forage for dairy cows.
If USDA allows GM alfalfa to be grown, it will contaminate conventional alfalfa grown organically (through pollen drift).
If organic dairy producers cannot get uncontaminated organic alfalfa to feed their cows, they will not be able to get their milk certified as organic.
Nestle also questioned the ability for regulators to prevent pollen from GM CROPS to contaminate organic crops nearby.
Toymaker turns to bamboo for material and inspiration In Mexico city,'bamboocycles'make two-wheeled transport trendy California company offers sustainable packaging for meat,
Mr. Peanut goes to Africa to train cashew farmersplanters, the century-old nut company best known for its dry roasted peanuts,
is teaching sustainable farming to cashew farmers in Africa. I talked recently with Steve Dumas, Planters senior associate brand manager and sustainability lead.
Tell me about Planters history of sustainability. Sustainability has always been embedded in the brand. It s the reason our name is Planters in the first place:
I understand you re working with African cashew farmers. We re a founding member of the African Cashew Initiative,
and we also work with the African Cashew Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
We ve all come together to improve the livelihood of African farmers. Africa is the largest producer of cashews in the world.
They employ 2. 5million farmers. Does Planters have a market there? We don t sell cashews there.
Do you sell any nuts in Africa? Not that I m aware of. We re looking to support the farmers.
and thanks to cashews, he s able to send all his kids to school. We visited the school, of 900 students in two sessions.
Do any of you have parents who are cashew farmers, and about half of them rose their hands.
create cashew nurseries, implement better agricultural practices. What percentage of your cashews come from Africa?
I don t have the exact number. In prior years we weren t able to procure any.
like for animal feed or fertilizer, so we re not wasting them. Our Suffolk, Va.,plant achieved zero waste to landfill status this year.
Peanuts grown In virginia have different moisture content than peanuts grown in Texas . What are some health trends in nuts?
Our straight dry roasted peanuts from the jar--we added a heart health logo on it.
Macadamia nuts aren t that great for you, right? I wouldn t put it that way.
peanuts are getting their turn in the spotlights, pistachios are good for you, walnuts are good for you, they all have their own nutrition profile.
We re trying to do a better job sharing this. Mr. Peanut has his own Facebook page.
You can friend him. He s up to 150,000 fans. When the cashew documentary goes live,
that will be updated on Facebook. has changed Mr. Peanut at all through the years? He started in 1916,
so he s been around a while himself. He s evolved. I wouldn't say he s really changed.
What s really important is that he reflects our brand values. Sustainability is important to us,
so it s important to Mr. Peanut. Mozambique cashew photos: Steve Dumas
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