[G]olf ball materials … may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes.
And that’s all you really need to know, about why McCains is recalling frozen hash browns they made for Roundy’s, Harris Teeter and Wegman’s.
How many golf balls might have been harvested? Why don’t they know?
It was a happy constellation. I’d heard The Food Programme on potatoes a couple of days before, and the lemon roasted potatoes sounded good. I’d just bought some salmon steaks for dinner. And there in the greengrocer was a pile of beautiful red-skinned new, but large, potatoes. No need to search out unwaxed lemons either, because all their lemons are unwaxed. Fiddly to put together, but easy to eat.
Also, a chance to do a reminder link to Carol Deppe talking about how really nutritious potatoes are.
P.s. Pity publicity-hungry Chris Voigt couldn’t be bothered to maintain the website for his 60-day, 20 potatoes-a-day marathon.
1 May 2017
I’m working on a complex story that includes the trade in coffee, so when my chum Luigi linked to resourcetrade.earth, from Chatham House, I rushed on over to see about coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated.
The thing that mainly caught my attention was weird little Belgium. ((Not counting the absurd display of arrows going to and from the centre of the countries, rather than the big container ports.)) Exports of coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated to France, greatest decline of all in 2015, down 15%. And yet, exports from Belgium to Netherlands in 2015 were up by 24%, the 2nd greatest increase.
I wonder what happened? And does it matter for my story?
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Foodwise, what unites Cameroon, Nigeria and Grenada? How about Cape Verde, Colombia and Peru? As of today, you can visit a website to find out. The site is the brainchild of Colin Khoury and his colleagues, and is intended to make it easier to see the trends hidden within 50 years of annual food data from more than 150 countries. If that rings a bell, it may be because you heard the episode around three years ago, in which Khoury and I talked about the massive paper he and his colleagues had published on the global standard diet. Back then, the researchers found it easy enough to explain the overall global trends that emerged from the data, but more detailed questions – about particular crops, or countries, or food groups – were much more difficult to answer. The answer to that one? An interactive website.
