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2009-01-05 Food for the soul - Food and Drink - Independent. ie

For a true comfort food, mashed potatoes are hard to beat. They are also very versatile -- Ive given you a classic recipe, but you can use a variety of flavours such as olive oil instead of butter, and Parmesan cheese, to give the potatoes a Mediterranean touch if you wish. When choosing your potatoes, remember that floury potatoes produce a light, fluffy mash, while waxy potatoes will result in a dense, rather gluey puree. My first choice is Rooster potatoes, a good, middle-of-the-road, floury potato that doesnt crumble too readily.

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It stands to reason that, living in a country where the days are short, dark, dank and cold for a few months of the year, we need something to comfort us, namely food -- hot, steaming casseroles that fill the kitchen with seductive aromas.

2009-01-05 Walking the Mediterranean is a vicarious pleasure Grand Forks Herald Grand Forks, North Dakota

The book is indeed a story of the Mediterranean seaside today with flashbacks into history and reflections on life by a person scaling cliffs, walking paths, meeting people along the way. McClure-Stratte describes the food and the hotels where he stopped. He walked more than 2,700 miles in the course of the book. While reading in airports and my living room, I was transported to parts of the world where I have traveled but not really known. Author Tony Perrottet says the book provides a highly entertaining perspective of the worlds oldest and greatest journey, conjured millennia ago by Homer.

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During the holidays just past, I kept stealing away. I went on a walking trip with Joel Stratte-McClure around the Mediterranean.

2009-01-04 Some rich fatty foods to take advantage of - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada

Unfortunately, in our obsession with low fat foods, often people shied away from all fatty foods. Ironically, fat offers us satiety: the feeling weve eaten something. We certainly wouldnt be promoting the health benefits of cheesecake since it can give us satiety, but we should take advantage of some nutritiously rich foods.

Another great high fat food is avocados. One little fruit can be around 300 calories, so it automatically becomes a forbidden food in any restrictive diet. Yet this fatty fruit helps in the production of anti-inflammatory hormones and is rich in anti-oxidants. Maybe time to dress up the nachos with some healthy guacamole.

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Before you jump on the latest food regime and ban fatty rich foods from your diet forever, there are some you should reconsider.

2009-01-03 Invasion of the pet parrot accused of killing off locals - Haaretz - Israel News

Kark, who collected data on invasive bird species, says these are coming in mainly due to human intervention, and have nothing to do with climate changes, as is commonly believed. Some were brought as pets and escaped to the wild. Some, like the glossy ibis, eat local species or compete for their food sources. Others, including some kinds of pigeons and Canadian geese, cause major crop damage.

The researchers, Professor Bella Galil of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute in Haifa, and Dr. Salit Kark of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said some 75 foreign species of birds and over 500 species of animals have settled in the Mediterranean basin.

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2009-01-03 The You Docs: For healthier arteries, drink this

People in the study ate gazpacho, the cold soup made of tomato, pepper and cucumber thats popular in Spanish and other Mediterranean cuisines. But its easy to incorporate this fruit in other dishes. We recommend salsa-topped salmon: The fish oil/tomato combo makes a high-powered blood pressure reducer and inflammation stopper.

Eating tomatoes keeps your blood pressure low and interferes with the inflammation, so you adopt two healthy practices with one food.

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A cup of tomato soup does more than taste good; it may protect your blood vessels.

2009-01-01 10 to watch in 2009 Iowa City Press Citizen

Late in January, he and his mother will open Reds Ale House in North Liberty. The new restaurant, in the former Rookies Fine Food and Spirits, will feature many of the same food items from Sluggers and incorporate Asian and Mediterranean themes, he said. Sluggers closed in June after being flooded out of its home of 20 years on the Coralville Strip.

With 30 years of experience working with non-profit groups, Reedus said she has concentrated much of her attention on flood recovery with the United Way and providing more funding from the centers food bank, increasing its budget from usd. 60,000 to usd. 100,000 this year. She also is concentrating on building her staff, with a new food bank director set to begin and a new communications director to be hired.

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2009-01-01 Technology Manages Food and Waste at Noodles - Chain Leader

The system also has a "prep and pull" function, which tells staff how much product to pull from storage and prep, based on daypart forecasts. Store managers run prep-and-pull sheets twice daily to get sales forecasts for each daypart, then staff prepares food accordingly. The system cuts waste in that little extra product is pre-prepped; it also "lets us serve the freshest food possible," Lehn says.

The POS system tracks daily sales information: how many of each menu item is sold each day. That information is automatically loaded to the Web-based application every day. Using that information, the food-management system can tell how much of each food product--pasta, produce, protein--should have been used that day.

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An integrated POS system, which tracks how much product is sold, coupled with a Web-based food-management program, which shows how much product should have been used, keeps Noodles and Companys food waste to a minimum. - Restaurant Management Restaurant Operations Restaurant Point-of-Sale Systems Restaurant Inventory Management An integrated POS system which tracks how much product is sold coupled with a Web-based

2009-01-01 Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg - Pairings: Winning the Match Game

For those experienced in pairing wine with food, the mention of each ingredient brings different associations to mind. Any allusion to lamb usually gets us thinking about pinot noir or syrah, while almonds send us in the direction of Spanish sherry. Chocolate almost invariably suggests red wine, whether dry or sweet.

Therefore, we went straight to the source: We e-mailed the legendary Paula Wolfert, in whose book "The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen" (Wiley, 2003) the lamb recipe appears. As she was traveling in Morocco, her recommendation was succinct: "Priorat. "

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Why not resolve to let 2009 be the year you learn to pair food and wine like a pro Well get you started with some basics, inspired by an e-mail we received from a reader this month:

2009-01-01 Tehran times : Malta rescues migrants as Italian immigration debate heats up

VALETTA (AFP) -- A Maltese patrol boat on Monday rescued a boatload of 139 would-be immigrants, including 10 pregnant woman, from rough seas off the coast of the Mediterranean island, an armed forces spokesman said.

An Italian interior ministry delegation arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli Monday to discuss the flood of immigrants across the Mediterranean to Italy, an foreign ministry spokesman in Rome said.

Those on board had said they have no water, food or fuel, Lieutenant Claudio Signanini told AFP earlier Monday.

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2009-01-01 Gaza: Crucible of conflict

As a result of the blockade and collapse of the economy, there is little money to buy food and limited food to buy. Food prices are rising and wheat flour, baby milk, and rice, among other essential goods, are increasingly scarce," the report said.

The tightened controls made it difficult for food, water, medical supplies and other essentials to reach the population. International aid has kept the Palestinian economy afloat during the years of violence. The World Bank estimates that the West Bank and Gaza received almost usd. 1 billion a year in international economic aid to alleviate hardship.

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Life for Gazans has not been easy and the misery has only deepened amid the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group which rules Gaza. - War and Conflict United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Israeli Politics Oslo Fatah Organization Save the Children Hamas Palestine United Nations