No, Google was not getting into the food business and this Gulp launch was just another April Fools’ Day prank but it probably inspired a company in India to launch a semi-frozen slush.

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“Indians first go with the colour of the food and have a tendency to believe that if the colour is good then the taste would automatically be great,” says master Chef Irshad Ahmed Qureshi of Inter-Continental.

“I have been to China, Japan, Malaysia, England and the Middle East where chefs give priority to presentation of dishes and colour doesn’t matter for them. But in India, especially for seasoned Indian dishes, colour with the use of different spices does matter to make it look more attractive,” he adds.

Dough for Baklava
3 eggs
1 kg flour
1 cup starch
2 tsp salt
1/2 cup water
1 cup crushed pistachio
2 cups melted butter

Method: For the sherbet, boil water and sugar in a pan. Add lemon juice and keep aside.

For the baklava, mix eggs, salt, flour and water in a bowl and knead to make dough. Leave for 15 minutes to mature.

Now divide into equal portions and roll out into layers of thin sheets while dusting with starch.

In a baking tray, arrange 10 of these pastry sheets one over the other. Spread crushed pistachio on top and layer with another 10 thin pastry sheets. You can make one more layer if you wish to.

Pour melted butter over the layered pastry sheets and cut into small squares. Bake for 45 minutes in a pre- heated oven.

Once done, remove from the oven and let it cool. Now, pour hot sherbet over cold baklavas and let it get completely absorbed. Sprinkle with pistachio and serve.

Getting rolls of sushi to come out right can be a pretty tricky process. Chances are your guests are already vastly impressed that you’re even going to try to serve it to them, so once you mess it up it’s painful to see those faces fall. Well, here’s a tip for the both of us — get yourself one of these automatic sushi rollers from Namco. Just load it up with all the ingredients, turn the handles, and then hide it so no one knows you cheated. Sadly, the auto-roller might be only in Japan right now, for the equivalent of $25

Damon Armagost, of Smryna, pleaded guilty Friday to printing $1,400 in counterfeit bills from the image of $100 bill he downloaded on his computer, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported.

Armagost spent $600 in counterfeit money in April on strippers who became suspicious and called police, who recognized the counterfeit bills as all having the same number as fake money passed elsewhere in the country, the newspaper reported.

“Secret Service agents went to Armagost’s home in Smyrna to interview him, and a family member informed the agents that they had recently observed the image of a $100 bill on their computer,” prosecutors said Saturday. Armagost is to be sentenced Nov. 5 in U.S. District Court.

Lentil has now become the second-biggest commodity of export from Nepal to Bangladesh.

However, for Bangladesh, that imported 4,800 tonnes of lentil valued at $2.5 million during June 2006-July 2007, imports from Nepal have proved costlier due to additional transport costs, New Age newspaper said Sunday.

Since Bangladesh does not have a road transit arrangement with India, its trucks cannot ply to Nepal. Indian trucks load the goods from Nepal and transport it to the India-Bangladesh border.

Such hassles involve extra cost and time as well as cause damage to goods for want of adequate warehouse, traders told the newspaper

The McAloo Tikki, a fried breaded potato and peas patty, is already very successful in the Middle-East market and “we are looking at other markets,” said Vikram Bakshi, head of Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt Ltd, the JV partner of McDonalds Corporation in north zone.

Caryl Schivley says her son, Brenton, was always very careful about what he ate — until last September 1, when he was at a friend’s house and took a cookie from a bowl on the kitchen table.

“He took a bite of the cookie and he said to his friend, ‘I shouldn’t have eaten that,’” said his mother. Severely allergic to peanuts, the 16-year-old from western Massachusetts made the dire mistake of not asking about the ingredients. Within minutes he developed a severe allergic reaction to the cookie, which contained peanuts.

Within an hour, he was dead.

The Gurwara Bangla Sahib langara has been feeding Delhi residents since 1935. Day in and day out a factory of human hands churns out what one member of our group observed as a day’s peace of mind for hungry members of the community. “If you get your day’s meal,” he said, “you can relax. You can survive.” It’s not a matter of survival for everyone who eats there — in fact, most people with whom we shared lunch looked happy and healthy, and had probably come as members of the spiritual community. But it’s there for anyone who needs it, and in a city of 13 million (and rapidly growing), an open, organized, clean, reliable, and free food source couldn’t be more valuable.

Every Sikh temple throughout the world has a Langar (Punjabi for “free kitchen”). This is not a soup kitchen. It’s not exclusively for the poor, nor exclusively for the Sikh community. Volunteering in the cooking, serving and cleaning process is a form of active spiritual practice for devotees, but the service they provide asks no religious affiliation of its recipients. Our guide’s chorus was, “Man, woman, color, caste, community,” meaning you will be fed here regardless of how you fit into any of those classifications. This spirit of inclusion and equality is reinforced by the kitchen’s adherence to vegetarianism, not because Sikhs are vegetarian, but because others who visit may be, and by serving no meat, they exclude nobody.

The preparations take place in an open air building with stone floors which has been arranged with several preparation stations. In one area, men and women sit together around a huge rectangular platform covered in dough. They roll balls, flatten them into circles, and pile them up to pass over to the griddle built into the floor, where only men sit around with long flippers, turning the white slabs of dough over and over until they acquire dark brown speckles, at which point they flick them off the heat and onto a cloth.

To stir the vegetables in the wok they use a shovel — the kind you’d used to dig a hole or shovel snow; the ladle for the lentil pot probably has a one-quart capacity; and the wash basins look more like bathing tubs at an ancient bathhouse than dish sinks, with high cement walls around a long, shallow pool. A row of volunteers sits on the ground near the washing area cleaning off metal plates by hand and passing them to the basins for rinsing. Stacked plates pile up along one side, ready for the next seating of eaters.

There is a certain joy about visiting places that you called home at some point in your life. You are part excited, part nervous as your senses try and seek out the old and the familiar. You wonder if all those nooks, corners, sights, sounds and smells still linger? You dread that the years of carefully cultivated romance around a place might be destroyed in a matter of seconds and the mind wills for status quo.

Durian is a fruit native to Thailand. They general grow to be about the size of your average melon. They have a light green layer that is hard like that of a coconut. It has sharp spikes on the outside as well. When you cut the fruit open you can see its sectioned yellow flesh. The odor of this fruit is pungent, some people describe the odor to be like the smell or stinky feet, rotting flesh, or a high concentration of walnuts. The smell is so offensive that it is illegal to be eaten in many public areas all around Asia and there are signs to let you know! #
Stinky Tofu

I like the blog but I love the pics… And now I am hungry :(

If you live in the United States and like spicy tuna rolls, Puerto Rican roast pork or Thai noodles, there is a good chance you are eating, and enjoying, MSG. And if you are the kind of cook who likes to keep a globe-trotting kitchen, well, then, some of these MSG-laden ingredients may deserve a place in your cupboard.

But if they go to Amnart Thongsema’s stall on Charoen Krung 85 road, they will get a full bowl of steamed white rice _ enough to fill an empty stomach.

Everywhere people are tightening their belts to cope with the rising costs of consumer goods, but Mr Amnart’s two-baht bowls of rice are helping low-income earners make ends meet.

Here are 6 of the strangest canned foods you can find being distributed at your local supermarket. I left out food meant for animals as that is completely different.

1. France – Canned Duck Fat

2. Sweden – Canned Cheeseburger

Sauce
4 tbsp golden syrup
2 tbsp water

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Afghan Commerce Minister Mohammad Amin Farhang said wheat shortages could lead to serious problems during the winter. His call came amid rising discontent inside Afghanistan at the spiralling cost of wheat and other basic foods. Afghanistan does not grow enough wheat to feed all its people and is partially dependent on imports.

On Thursday, the chief of the Bangladesh army, Gen Moeen U Ahmed, said that he was “very concerned” about the problem of rice supplies which he said must be redressed immediately. Many people in the country have been hit hard by spiralling food prices, which in some cases have doubled over the last year, mostly because of damage caused by heavy monsoon rain. A delegation from Bangladesh is now in India to discuss importing rice to offset the shortages.

“Food is now a key part of our leisure time and we are eating out more often. It is no longer unfashionable to cook but this trend can be at odds with desires for convenience or intentions to make ethical or healthy choices. The popularity of convenience food snacking and eating out has led to concerns about the demise of the family meal as well as a decline in knowledge and skills about food (but) the majority of family meals are still eaten together. Even in single person households, eating remains a social activity with young single people tending to invite people to dinner more often than their married counterparts,” The Guardian quoted the government study of British eating habits as saying.

However, it has played down reports that Britain is not only becoming a nation of scoffers but getting dangerously dependent on food from abroad.

When I used to live in Empress Court, opposite the Oval, near Churchgate, I would rise at dawn, as the clock on Rajabai Tower struck Six, and go for a long brisk walk all the way to Chowpatty, and on my return, I would head for Stadium restaurant for a refreshing and stimulating cup of tea to energize me and perk me up for the day ahead.

We’re not sure what kind of person (or family) needs to keep a stock of 20 apples, oranges, and what could be limes in their home, but this Ring design seems to satisfy your crazy craving for produce. Fresh fruit goes in at the top, and less fresh fruit comes out the bottom. A cool design, but unless you plan on becoming a full-fledged fruitarian like Steve Jobs was, you probably want to stick with the less demanding fruit holders. – Jason Chen