2016 International Year of Pulses
We'd had the International Year of the Potato. Then the United Nations declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. As… Read More
We'd had the International Year of the Potato. Then the United Nations declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses. As… Read More
It took 123 years for the world population to go from one billion to two billion but only 12 to… Read More
The Danish government introduced a 'fat tax' surcharge on foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fats. This initiative to combat heart… Read More
The United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of the Potato, to focus world attention on the role the potato… Read More
The American documentary film Super Size Me by director Morgan Spurlock aimed to expose the evils of fast food. The film… Read More
The Ark of Taste (or Arca del Gusto) is an initiative by Slow Food International to identify and preserve heritage… Read More
The el Bulli restaurant in Roses, Catalonia, under chef Ferran Adrià, was named best restaurant in the world by Restaurant… Read More
Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation:The Dark Side of the All-American Meal explores the global influence of the American fast… Read More
If Jamie Oliver was all about energy, Nigella Lawson was all about sensuality. Her first book, How to Eat, had… Read More
Jamie Oliver became The Naked Chef. The impossibly jaunty young chef received his big break from appearing on television as… Read More
The predecessor of Slow Food, Arcigola, began in Bra, Italy, the hometown of founder Carlo Petrini, who was horrified at… Read More
In the late ‘60s and early ’70s, the counterculture revolt railed against everything that symbolised the industrial state. It included a… Read More
A recent high school graduate, 17 year old Fred DeLuca, and family friend Dr. Peter Buck teamed up to open… Read More
History does not record when the first Hawaiian Pizza arrived in Australia. But the man credited with its invention was… Read More
The first use of the term global warming was in The Hammond Times in Indiana USA. The article, on 6… Read More
Harland Sanders opened his first restaurant in 1930 in the front room of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky, naming… Read More
Albers Super Market in Cincinatti,USA,was the first to use the term ‘supermarket ’. William Albers, former president of Kroger Grocery… Read More
King Kullen, the Price Wrecker, opened in 1930 in Long Island, New York. King Kullen is recognized by the Smithsonian… Read More
The world’s first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis Tennessee. Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly, claimed to… Read More
Swiss doctor Maximilian Bircher-Benner invented muesli at his health clinic . He called it the “apple diet dish” or Apfeldiätspeise . The… Read More
The first patent for a dish-washing machine was issued in 1850 in the USA, but the machine was never put… Read More
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