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Archives for July 2010

Awash in Swiss wines again!

29/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland – A short note to explain my near-silence: it’s been a very busy summer in terms of wine, and the results of this will soon start to surface here, but right now I’m tied up with the new Swiss Wine Guide, second edition of the English version (it also comes out in French […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: competition, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, Jean Lenoir, judging, Le Nez du Vin, national, Swiss Wine Guide, tasting, visiting wineries in Switzerland

Topping and tailing gooseberries the easy way

26/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Here’s a shortcut a wine grape grower’s wife shared with me, for topping and tailing gooseberries. We use them in jam and pies, both of which I love, but it’s always seemed unfair to me that you first get pricked by the thorns and then you have the tedious job of topping and tailing them. […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: freezing, fruit, garden, gooseberries, jam, pie, shortcut, sugar, tip, topping and tailing

“Angels and Demons” journey: travelling to see the Large Hadron Collider

24/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

By Shawn Lawrence Otto Reprinted with permission from MinnPost, a Minnesota USA online community newspaper. Second in a five-part science/travel series. Geneva, Switzerland — In Italy they like to eat late. Most people don’t even head out to the restaurants until about 9. And in Torino there are many of them, mostly spilling out onto […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Cern, Euroscience Open Forum, LHC, particles, physics, science, Science Debate, Shawn Lawrence Otto, US science policy

Migros opts for more organic bread grains

23/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Swiss food news Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, Migros, will increase by one-third its purchases of Swiss Integrated Production grains for bread at the 2011 harvest, significantly increasing its use of near-organic grains. Integrated Production (IP, or PI in French) is a label that covers a set of very high standards followed […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: bio, bread, flour, grains, hares, integrated production, IP, IP-Suisse, lizards, Migros, organic, skylark, Swiss Ornithological Institute, TerreSuisse label

White star marks the spot where Sherlock left us

20/07/2010 by Ellen Wallace

By Bob Evans Meiringen, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – High on a bleak crag above this small crossroads town in central Switzerland, a large white X marks a world-famous spot which draws tourists and their cameras from around the globe. Travellers leap from the cable car as it slides to a halt after an 8-minute climb from […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bern, death of Holmes, Meiringen, Professor Moriarty, Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Switzerland

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