Tag Archive for 'fresher'
Want to introduce your kids to baking and avoid spending money on store-bought snacks? Here’s a recipe that’s fun, relatively easy, and is guaranteed to be a hit with the kids. These homemade organic cheese crackers are of course fresher than the ones you might find at the supermarket, and when you make them at home, you can skip the excess packaging, food coloring, ... weiterlesen...
We didn’t think food could get much fresher than when dishes are garnished with crisp herbs picked from your own garden – until we saw these cute lil’ planters from Woolly Pocket. The Dining Society (an LA-based band of local food lovers) recently had a summer feast at the home of Jaime Honkawa, who had the delectable gem of an idea to use her Woolly Pockets p... weiterlesen...
Bell, Book & Candle restaurant in the West Village is using its roof to grow sixty percent of its ingredients via energy-efficient Aeroponic growing towers. Led with Chef John Mooney’s locavore beliefs, Mooney’s initiatives transcend the typical local farm-to-table restaurant. By growing vertically, Mooney is able to control what goes into each vegetable, with a con... weiterlesen...
Images: Times of India (AFP) and Channel News Asia
It's a vegetal plot fit for a bad zombie flick: desperate to make their produce look fresher, bigger and mature faster, some Indian farmers are injecting their veggies with hormones on the sly. The most commonly-used substance: oxytocin, a reproductive hormone found in mammals.
Oxytocin acts primarily as a neurotransmitter in ... weiterlesen...