Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/06/brexit-what-it-means-for-the-food-and-drink-industries/

What Britain’s exit from the European Union (“Brexit”) means for food and agriculture is worth attention.

As The Guardian put it,

It is no coincidence that food and drink is at the heart of so much of the debate about whether we are better off in or out of the EU. Worth £80bn a year and employing 400,000 people, it is our largest manufacturing sector and a big exporter and importer. Moreover, 38% of its workers are foreign-born, placing its demand for cheap labour at the centre of arguments about immigration.

The common agriculture policy (CAP) swallows up nearly 40% of the total EU budget…Britain produces just more than half what it consumes and depends on Europe to provide more than a quarter of the rest, while the EU’s population of more than 500 million people provides the UK’s most significant export market for food.

Agrimoney, a London-based concern that reports on commodity markets began its report on Brexit’s impact with these words:

Oh dear.

Tim Lang, professor at City University London’s Centre for Food Policy, told Food Navigator:

People will pay more for food. The British people have voted to raise the food prices…Where do they think their food comes from? Planet Zog?

Bakery & Snacks is especially interested in the meaning of Brexit for the food and drink industries.

It produced a Special Edition highlighting its articles on the topic.

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Rolf and Daughters, in Nashville, Tenn., boasts exposed brick, bare bulbs and ceiling pipes.

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Brider, in Denver, features slate gray floors, a chalkboard menu and metal elements throughout.

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Source: http://www.fannetasticfood.com/2016/06/14/a-weekend-in-vancouver/

I’m switching gears today to share another Canadian vacation recap with you guys! Want to see everything we did? Check out our western Canada hiking trip itinerary.

The last few days of our trip were spent in Vancouver! We arrived on a Friday in the early evening and my brother drove up from Seattle to meet us. We lucked out with phenomenal weather – in the 70’s/low 80’s and sunny! Gotta love that lack of humidity, too, and the cool ocean breeze!

It was so fun to spend time with two of my favorite gentlemen! On our first night we enjoyed strolling around the city before deciding on dinner at a hole-in-the-wall sushi spot near our bed and breakfast (we stayed at the adorable English Bay Inn) called Kitaya Sushi. Delicious and really affordable!

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The ‘Turkey’ apricot, a hand-coloured engraving after a drawing by Augusta Innes Withers (1792-1869), from the first volume of John Lindley’s Pomological Magazine (1827-1828). The Romans dubbed the apricot the “precious one.” Poets praised its beauty. The conquering Arabs took it to the Mideast, where the luxurious fruit was exploited in sugary confections.

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Four radiant, yellowish-orange apricots were depicted on each of the cellophane packages stacked on a shelf in a Middle Eastern grocery near my home. An avid fan of dried apricots, I was drawn to the sheets of dried apricot paste imported from Damascus. Amardine, as it is called, is especially beloved in the Ramadan season, when it is used to make a juice that the faithful drink to break their fast or to savor during the festive time after sundown.

Translated into poetic Arabic, amardine means “moon of the faith.” It is unlike your ordinary supermarket fruit roll that some call “shoe leather.” According to Charlie Sahadi, owner of a vast Middle Eastern food emporium in Brooklyn, the Arabic delicacy has a “thickness” and “consistency” that ordinary fruit rolls lack.

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I make some version of this peanut cauliflower rice all the time so I thought it was about time I shared it with you! It’s super easy to make and comes together in just a few minutes, even with making the cauliflower rice! If you prep the cauliflower rice ahead of time, you’re looking at…

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Different cultures have different understandings of disease and medicine, which can often affect a patients’ treatment process. Oftentimes, patients will be skeptical of traditional Western medicine, or create narratives about the origin of their disease that are completely independent of medicinal logic. Yannette Tactuk, a Clinical Oncology Social Worker at the Dubin Breast Center in New York City, explains here how a patient’s cultural heritage plays a role in their breast cancer treatment.

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With the meat of summer quickly approaching now is the the time for us to stock up on our Vitamin D.  Vitamin D is often called the “sunshine vitamin” because our body needs exposure to sunlight for its production.  These days, people are spending more time inside and even when they do go outside, are slathering themselves with sunscreen.  Dark skinned people have less ability to convert sunshine to Vitamin D then light skinned people and the sunshine for people living in the northern climates (above Los Angeles) is often not strong enough to stimulate production, particularly in the winter.  These factors contribute to what many are calling a Vitamin D deficiency epidemic.

Vitamin D deficiency has now been associated with Seasonal Affective Disorder,  breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, depression, weight gain, decreased immunity and other illnesses. Your body needs Vitamin D to aid calcium absorption to prevent bone difficulties and Vitamin D seems to be important for activating the t-cells of the immune system.   Only 30 minutes, two times a week of summer sun exposure to your back, legs or face without sunscreen will usually produce adequate levels of Vitamin D.  (There is s…

Source: http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/06/annals-of-food-safety-general-mills-flour/

The CDC has started a page on the E. coli O121 (STEC O121) outbreak linked to General Mills flour:

In interviews, ill people answered questions about the foods they ate and other exposures in the week before they became ill. Sixteen (76%) of 21 people reported that they or someone in their household used flour in the week before they became ill. Nine (41%) of 22 people reported eating or tasting raw homemade dough or batter. Twelve (55%) of 22 people reported using Gold Medal brand flour. Three ill people reported eating or playing with raw dough at restaurants.

The CDC’s “At A Glance”

Case Count: 38
States: 20
Deaths: 0
Hospitalizations: 10
Recall: Yes

 Here’s the “epi curve”—the graph of when people became ill and how many.

It looks like cases are—or were—popping up one at a time.  There is always a reporting lag.

While waiting for more information, the CDC recommends:

Do not use, serve, or sell the recalled flours.
Do not eat raw dough or batter, whether made from recalled flour or any other flour.
Bake items made with raw dough or batter before eating them.
Do not taste raw dough or batter.
Do not serve raw dough to customers or allow children and other guests to play with raw dough.

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