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SHANGHAI--These days, Liu Chuansheng nervously scouts five locations before he buys cooking oil, illustrating how a sudden spike in the price of the Chinese kitchen's most vital ingredient has become close to a national crisis. Agence France-Press/Getty Images Workers place ...
BEIJING - The central government will invest more to improve county-level quality inspection centers to ensure food hygiene over the next five years in response to a number of incidents, a senior official said. Of the 2,862 county-level quality inspection centers nationwide, less ...
China's Premier Wen Jiabao has vowed to step up the country's fight against inflation, increasing the likehood of further interest rate rises that could threaten the strength of a global economic recovery. Rush hour traffic in Beijing - a clampdown on inflation threatens to slow ...
The Swan at Southrop, Gloucestershire. Photograph: Observer Southrop, Lechlade, Gloucestershire (01367 850 205). Meal for two, including wine and service, 110 I went to the Swan at Southrop following the luscious promise of one item on the online menu. From this I can firmly say: ...
Wolfgang Puck visits with customers inside Wolfgang Puck Bistro in Tulsa, one of 2010's hot new restaurants. For more, see today's Weekend section. JAMES GIBBARD / Tulsa World Wolfgang Puck joined my wife and me in a booth at Wolfgang Puck Bistro and signaled to a nearby server. ...
Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal David 'Liang Pi' Shi, left, and Jason Wang of Xi'an Famous Foods at their original Flushing, Queens, location. From a tiny food stall in a Flushing basement, Xi'an Famous Foods made a mark on the city's culinary world with its hand-pulled ...
China export their pears mainly to EU countries such as Holland, Germany, France. Besides the EU exports also reach the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The main exporting varieties are Golden pear and Ya pear. Sanlong, a company based in the Shandong Province, informed that there ...
Australian apple growers are bracing for the arrival of Chinese apples this week and hoping that consumer patriotism will give them an edge, according to local news website Country News. "We've prepared a media strategy for when Chinese apples land in Australia," Apple and Pear ...
The grape season in Australia is in full swing. This season is proving extremely challenging for the growers. The torrential downpours and massive flooding have seen growers in Northern Queensland having to use boats and pontoons just get the fruit in and volumes will certainly ...
Only two months after opening his 30th restaurant, Fern, at the St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort in Puerto Rico, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is now focusing on London, where his Spice Market debuts on Valentine's Day. Known for fusing Asian flavors with classical French technique, ...
Australia's Quarantine and Inspection Service has begun auditing some 200 growers interested in shipping table grapes to China, local news site Weekly Times Now reported. The audit is the latest step toward the entry of Australia's grapes into China, which was obtained through an ...
Despite the implementation of Free Trad Agreement (FTA) and zero duty for Peru's asparagus in March 2010 the going market price for the product puts it out of reach for most, according to a report on China's asparagus industry by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
A New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers representative has told Radio New Zealand a new case of PSA vine disease 15km (9.3 miles) outside the containment zone is a mystery. The organisation's president Peter Ombler told the radio programme he did not know how the virulent Italian strain ...
Del Monte Fresh recently gave more than 525 students and teachers at Sun City Elementary in Bossier City, Louisiana, a very special visit. A truckload of Del Monte fresh fruit and active fruit games was delivered to the school for an entertaining and delicious afternoon. The ...
This morning the first 500 pallets with Chilean Thompson Seedless grapes arrived at Leo Pels. Proaens is the supplier. "These are first class grapes and the brix is good" Leo says. The grapes are offered in 4.5 and 8.2 kgs and 10 x 500 grs.
Deminpex will be in the market with import onions this year as usual. There are already white, red and yellow onions on their way from the U.S., Australia, New-Zealand and Chile in all different kinds of packages, sizes and colours. According to Denimpex there won't be enough ...
Mastronardi Produce has long been known as an industry leader in the produce world and we are proud to announce that we are named as One of Canada's 50 Best Managed Company's for the second year in a row. This prestigious national award is sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, National ...
Colombian and Chinese officials are negotiating a US$7.6 billion railway and port infrastructure investment in a bid to boost the South American country's position as an international distribution center, reported the Financial Times. If approved the proposed development would be ...
Zhangpu Yicai Fruit and Vegetable Co. Ltd of Zhangpu, China exports at least 20 containers of vegetable every week to South East Asia and Russia. Vegetables being exported are cabbages, cauliflowers and carrots. There are two cabbage varieties being offered: round cabbage and ...
Positive signals from the participation of the T18 Group at the recent Fruit Logistica exhibition. Present in 'Piazza Italia', the collective stand coordinated by CSO which brought together 30 leading Italian companies in more than 800 square meters, the past few days represented ...
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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