Topic: Italy
Fake organic products from Italy have been sold around Europe, Italian police said on Tuesday as they announced the results of an inquiry that has led to seven arrests and the seizure of 2,500 tons of food.The police said 700,000 tons of ...
"You shouldn't go over the river to get what you have on your side," cautioned Gunnar Karl Gislason from Iceland.He was one of dozens of chefs at the Salon of Taste in Turin, an international food fest aimed at touting local food ...
The?weather has changed.It may actually be safe to say that? Climate has changed.I don't think that it is a chance happening.Last year we were flooded 5 times.Each time we lost a lot? of our crops.Onions? were completely subimerged under water for quite ...
Bergamot is an aromatic oil found in the peels of the fruit of the bergamot orange , a citrus tree which flourishes in Italy . The oil is used in essential oil preparations, skin care products, and as a food flavoring, most ...
That earlier GMO Eucharist thread got taken over by a discussion of gluten and celiac disease. The metaphor is usually one of speed: fast food has ruined our culture, slow food will save it (and is the rallying manifesto for the movement ...
Backpackers go for green vacations with stints on European farmsBackpackers pining for European adventure have discovered life on the farm, shoveling manure, feeding pigs and making butter as a recession-beating way to sate their wanderlust.Their ticket to an earthy taste of the ...
It is a festival of rural tradition, which originated from the desire to offer a tribute of grain to Our Lady Mother Mary to thank for the good harvest obtained. The festivities begin on Saturday to develop throughout the day of Sunday: ...
a little of what you fancy need not cost the Earth, but only if it's organic. Valentina Niccolucci and colleagues from the University of Siena, Italy, measured the resources used to grow, package and distribute wine made from Sangiovese grapes at two ...
As organic farming becomes more common, methods to identify fraud in the industry are increasingly important. In a recent study in Journal of Environmental Quality, scientists successfully use nitrogen isotopic discrimination to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilizers were used on sweet pepper ...
Nestled in the dusty northern suburbs of Beijing, the village of Baige Zhuang seems like an unlikely birthplace for fine Italian wines and cheeses. But since 1999, Agrilandia Italian Farm has been producing handcrafted organic red wines, fruit wines, cheeses, and conserves ...