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Coffee and avocados? How Sicily is turning tropical amid climate change
Climate change is prompting fruit farmers to diversify and coffee roasters to start considering areas beyond the so-called bean belt to source their raw material. In Sicily, Morettino, a forward-looking family-run roastery, has already started growing coffee plants in Palermo, … Continue reading
Inside the secret world of Manchester’s Tokyo Ramen restaurant
Well well, apparently the best ramen (and one of the cheapest) is served at Tokyo Ramen in Manchester’s Northern Quarter… Let’s see! In this video I’m ordering the Tantan Ramen š, along with the vegetable gyozaš„ and an Asahi beer … Continue reading
Food History: Ramen
The history of ramen features cameos from The Yakuza crime syndicate, the U.S. Army, and a businessman who turned a simple idea into a worldwide convenience food. Ramen is so much more than a cheap and filling meal. In this … Continue reading
The Secret History of Pasta
This fun, animated video follows the history of pasta from 5th century Sicily to the present day. Animation: Fly Machine Picture Co.
20 Years of Lies: The Mad Cow BSE Scandal | Plainly Difficult Documentary
Learn with Plainly Difficult! The Mad Cow Disease scandal was the British Governments attempt to cover up the link between beef and variant CreutzfeldtāJakob disease (vCJD) Which would result in thousands being exposed to the illness…… Thank you to my … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – The Life Scientific, Chris Elliott on fighting food fraud
How āfingerprintingā technology could help prevent another horse meat scam. Professor Chris Elliott is something of a āfood detectiveā. A Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology at Queen’s University Belfast and a founding director of its Institute for Global Food … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – Made of Stronger Stuff, Taste
Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body. Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken continue their journey around the human body, asking what our insides can reveal about our lives and the … Continue reading
āThe Red Listā: Biodiversity loss and food – Unearthed – Journeys Into The Future of Food
Advolly Richmond is exploring how food production methods and climate change today are exacerbating issues of biodiversity loss. As conditions change and human activity intervenes with environments, entire ecosystems are thrown out of balance, and the consequences for species are … Continue reading
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