Thursday, the 25th October
The World’s Strongest Beer (65%) is being produced in Scottland
Paging the Guinness World Records. A Scottish brewery claims it has produced the world’s strongest beer, Brewmeister’s Armageddon, with an ABV of 65 percent. [read more]
Top 10 Food Trends For 2012 by Forbes
Once again, on National Food Day, we present the year’s leading trends in American food and restaurants. The pickings are as diverse as they are meaningful and (well, mostly) good for you and the environment. Just a taste: bison, bitters, infused pastas, the Peruvian boom and – just possibly – the beginning of the end of bacon dominance. Wash them all down with water purified and bottled in house, and served for free. [read more]
Living Frog In Salad Bag From Walmart Ruins Meal
You can’t help but be a little worried anytime you take a week-old bag of salad greens out of the fridge. But the worst you usually encounter is wilted greens. A woman in Minneola, Fla. found something far more gross when she opened her crisper this morning. [read more]
Canada: Tax on junk food starting to make sense
In a campaign launched Tuesday, the OMA is saying that it’s time for junk food to be treated the same way as tobacco. Tax it, slap health warnings all over the packaging and restrict children from having access to it. [read more]
Wednesday, the 24th October
Historic Vergelegen Estate to open signature restaurant
Following the success of ‘Stables at Vergelegen’, the bistro-style restaurant which launched in March 2012, the estate is opening ‘Camphors at Vergelegen’ in November. This signature restaurant, which overlooks expansive lawns and gardens, takes its name from the magnificent camphor trees – at least 300 years old – in front of the historic homestead. [read more]
10 Top wine farms for outdoor dining via @Food24
My idea of perfection is sitting outdoors in enough sun to keep me warm, enough shade to stop me from burning, whilst people run around bringing me delicious food and lots of wine. There are so many good things about eating outdoors, so here are a few things to look for and a few of the best farms that offer an outdoor lunch. [read more]
Junk food needs graphic warning labels similar to tobacco! Do you agree?
“We need immediate and strong legal action to address what Ontario’s doctors are now seeing in the diabetes clinics and the stroke centers, and on the operating table: a full-scale public health crisis,” OMA president Doug Weir said in a press release Tuesday. [read more]
SA households’ food insecure: minister
South Africa is over-dependent on markets and retailers for its food needs, Agriculture Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Tuesday. [read more]
Tuesday, the 23rd October
Ever wanted to know how McDondalds Fries are made?
The video starts in a potato field, evoking a farm-to-table feel — with a twist. Scott Gibson, manager of McDonald’s Canada’s supply chain, takes viewers on a “farm to fryer” journey and clears up some questions from its ask-us-anything PR site Our Food. Your Questions. [read more]
Booze Nerd Alert! Perfect Pint Formula Devised
Mindlab factored in several things completely unrelated to taste, like surroundings, music volume of the venue in which the pint is consumed and the number of days before the drinker is required back at work. [read more]
Cafe Allows Men Peeks Into Ladies Restroom…For Art. Riiiight!
An Austrian artist has installed a one-way mirror in a Vienna cafe that allows men to peek from their restroom into the ladies room. [read more]
Twitter Helps Chef Find Stolen Food Truck
“I called everyone that I knew and saw if any of the other guys were playing a joke on me. We quickly realized that it wasn’t,” Hodgson said. “We sent out tweets about it. We have a fan that actually lives on this street and they sent us an email that said ‘I see your truck across the street.’ We drove down here and found the truck parked right here.” [read more]
Monday, the 22nd October
Coca-Cola ‘Beauty Drinks’ To Launch In France
The drinks will be positioned under the Oenobiol Beautific brand, but Coca-Cola declined to provide further details. The Coca-Cola business unit in France said in a statement that the drinks will be sold in a “small scale pilot” limited to a number of pharmacies in the country. [read more]
Food Shortage in Southern Africa worsens!
The United Nations deputy humanitarian chief says food shortages are “a chronic problem” in southern Africa and more than 5.5 million people in eight countries need aid this year, a 40 percent increase compared to 2011. [read more]
11 Ways Food Marketing Can Make You Fat
You probably feel in your gut — literally — that food marketing can make you fat. The fact that we’re constantly exposed to ads for various products must, surely, make us eat more. People often think of commercials on TV as our main path to their messages. But in fact, we’re exposed to food marketing, broadly defined, all the time. [read more]
The Effect OfGMOs On Children
In a few weeks, Californians will decide if genetically modified foods (GMOs) should be labeled. Labeling GMOs will force greater transparency on the part of food producers and it represents a potential shift for consumers to regain a measure of control over their own food. But the US will still lag far behind many European countries, which not only have been labeling GMO foods for years but in some cases, also require warning labels for junk foods and have strict regulations on the types of foods and beverages advertised, particularly to children. [read more]
