Food Talk

If we’re to base our assessment on the profits posted by Hormel, maker of SPAM, despite continued stock market plunge in other industries, it does look like Americans buy more canned and processed food like SPAM when the prices of more natural foods soar. Sales of Smucker’s jams have soared too. Read the full article , with the [...]

We’ve successfully baked pan de sal last Sunday but bread making still hasn’t become an everyday thing for us here at home. We still buy commercial bread. A couple of nights ago, Speedy came home with two bags of pan de sal — regular and malunggay pan de sal. Malunggay (Moringa oleifera) is, of course, this [...]

No, “fasting” during the month of Ramadan is NOT the equivalent of starvation. The ritual consists of not consuming any food nor drink from sunrise to sunset . After sunset, the Muslims have their evening meal called the iftar which can be a full and healthy meal. For instance, in Bangladesh :

Some of the common iftar items from Bangladeshi cuisine include [...]

If there is one word that keeps recurring in health news, it’s “recall.” Everything’s being recalled — pet food, salad greens , milk… now, it’s eggs. In Minnesota, seven people fell ill and their illness were linked to eggs produced by an Iowa company. The company, Wright County Egg, has voluntarily recalled eggs distributed it has distributed ( sold under [...]