by John Carney, Breitbart: U.S. consumers faced higher prices for food in July, undermining Biden White House claims that inflation ran at zero in the month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index showed on Thursday that consumer food prices charged by U.S. producers rose two percent in July compared with the previous month. […]
Janice Kortkamp, a great friend of Syria, writes movingly here of the deep significance of bread in Syrian life and the great crime of illegally occupying US troops burning wheat fields as well as the theft of Syrian wheat by Turkey: I’ve described Syria as the most real place I’ve ever been and there is nothing more simply real than […]
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Barbecue orgies, potato pay and lava bombs + this day in history w/the McDonald's massacre and our song of the day by Eric Church on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2018.
(MEE) — Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture. The discovery detailed on Monday shows that hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Mediterranean achieved the cultural milestone […]
Bread price fixing, Twinkie bonuses and toxic places + this day in history w/the Great Baltimore Fire and our song of the day by Lord Huron on your Morning Monarchy for February 7, 2018.
At the worker-owned Leeds Bread Co-operative, all employees have a say in decisions – right down to the kind of bread that gets baked. The business model is proving a recipe for success, finds Tom Lawson
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People are making a lot of money off the new 'sharing economy'; London brewery teams with food activist to make beer out of wasted bread; and Ireland's most hated bankster is going home for justice.
People are making a lot of money off the new 'sharing economy'; London brewery teams with food activist to make beer out of wasted bread; and Ireland's most hated bankster is going home for justice.
How baking is helping torture survivors start a new life
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In the U.K., a lack of folic acid in foods is a problem. Nearly 2,000 babies have been born with serious side effects such as spina bifida since 1998 due to the government’s failure to add the B vitamin to flour, according to researchers.
About 150 yearly birth defects could have been avoided had the government added it to flour like 78 other countries, including the United States. [1]
