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Archives for October 2015

Vaud honoured for stellar wines

29/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

BERN, SWITZERLAND – In a remarkable show, winning a number of top awards for Swiss wines, canton Vaud’s producers put their wines in the limelight Thursday evening. The honour of being named Swiss Winery of the Year went to the Domaine de la Ville de Morges, which has been harvesting a string of prizes in […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: awards, Grand Prix du Vin Suisse, prizes, Swiss national wine competition, Vinea, Vinum magazine

Eat your potatoes!

28/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

I’m astonished: it seems that we are throwing away more than half of our potatoes in Switzerland. A new report from ETH in Zurich shows that producers are wasting them, but consumers are the worst among the guilty parties. Did you know that we throw away 300 kg of food per person per year? Save […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News Tagged With: Chasselas, Fendant, food waste, potatoes, raclette

What the WHO really says about cancer, meat

28/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Meat-producing companies and meat packagers are vocal in expressing their unhappiness with the October report from the World Health Organization in Geneva suggesting that red meat and in particular processed meats may cause cancer or be related to cancer development. Here is the report summary in the form of a Q&A from […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, News

New to Switzerland, babies or antiques – 3 good tools

27/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This is a good week for additional sources of help and information if you’re new to the Lake Geneva region – or new to the world of babies. Comparis, new web section on moving to Switzerland Comparis, which for nearly 20 years has been providing consumers with price comparisons for services and […]

Filed Under: Vineglorious! Swiss wine book

Martigny opens a very special hotel

14/10/2015 by Ellen Wallace

Swiss quality hotel, with a mentally handicapped team MARTIGNY, SWITZERLAND / OPINION – It’s not every day I’m this charmed by a hotel, but here is one I would love to see filled year-round, and not just because the remarkable staff is mostly a group of mentally handicapped people. It’s called the Martigny Boutique Hotel […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Travels

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