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Is this the UK’s most feasible alternative to rice?
‘“Oh,” they say, “I thought it was bird food.”’ At Dev Biswal’s Canterbury restaurant The Cook’s Tale, the introduction of a certain ingredient has had diners either confused or pleasantly surprised. Typically grown in tropical climates and poor quality soils, millet is a small-seed grass not unlike couscous in appearance by the time it reaches your plate.
Nutrients in our food are declining. Can regenerative agriculture save it?
The calcium content in carrots fell by more than a quarter between the mid-1970s and the late 1990s, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/AP For the last few decades, the nutrient content of our crops has been declining. In the late 90s, the US Department of Agriculture found the vitamin C content of lemons had decreased by almost a third over the previous 22 years.
Capital One’s Brex Bargain: Now Comes the Hard Part
Late yesterday Capital One announced that it had acquired the commercial payments and expense management fintech Brex for $5.15 billion, half in cash and half in stock. Analysts have been noting that the price is a sharp discount from Brex’s peak valuation of roughly $12 billion, suggesting this may be reflect the broader reset in fintech valuations since 2021, but also Brex’s recent slower growth.
Paperwork Over Plastic: Federal Procurement Card Curbs May End Up Costing More
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration had lowered single purchase limits on U.S. government corporate cards to one dollar for most government agencies, effectively rendering these cards useless. These actions were taken by the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as part of an overall effort to improve government efficiency and reduce government spending.
Fake meat ‘won’t save the planet’, warns report
Fake meat ‘alternatives’ are not as green as they claim because they are based on industrial methods that drive environmental crises, a new report has found. The report, by the Independent Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) and , warned that alternative proteins that are used in things like plant-based burgers will continue the same problems of industrial food systems; powerful agribusiness corporations, unhealthy diets and long supply chains that exploit farmers.
How seasonality went from way of life to watchword
Farming | Eating & drinking Sam Bilton 14th April 2022 "Good things that are out of season are but a ghost of their true selves,” mused author Ambrose Heath in the introduction to his 1932 cookbook Good Food, a month by month account of what’s good to eat. When Heath wrote these words, affluent Britons were already on board with being able to buy unseasonal foods even if it was for novelty’s sake. Today we have so much choice it is hard to know exactly what is genuinely in season.
Sacrificing Lamb
Meat | Soil | Animal welfare | Farming Hugh Thomas 14th April 2022 If we’re conscious of eating fruit and vegetables at the right time of the year, for reasons of flavour and sustainability, should we not want the same of meat? At the time you read this, about three quarters of the British population will be making their plans for Easter celebration. For many of them, that entails buying a lamb joint for their Sunday roast.
A food network is born
Community | Environment & ethics | Eating & drinking | Farming In May 2021, my local council in Frome – a small town in Somerset – asked me to file a report around what producers we had in our area, and whether they could supply the town with more food. It wasn’t long before this became about more than food mile anxiety.
Child labour found on Cadbury farms
Farming | Ethical business | Inequality | Price Nina Pullman 5th April 2022 A new TV investigation has revealed children are working on farms supplying cocoa beans to chocolate giant Cadbury just as shoppers gear up for Easter. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme Cadbury Exposed, which aired on Monday evening (4 April), went undercover to farms in Ghana, where they found farmers earning less than £2 a day and using children as workers.
Blood and Sand by Alex Von Tunzelmann
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The Patient Assassin by Anita Anand
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Edward VII: The Last Victorian King | Christopher Hibbert | Macmillan
A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king. To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old peacock." King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography.
FILESTREAM Setup and Testing without Visual Studio – SQLServerCentral
As is the case with many SQL developers, my company plans to use SQL Server 2008 for a major new development project. After getting my SQL Server 2008 test environment set up, I knew there are many new features to test in general, but I wanted to specifically test out the new FILESTREAM functionality in SQL Server 2008. Our new project may benefit from FILESTREAM, but without some testing I could not be sure.
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