Swiss-wide long week of wonderful food and wine events, some educational, others mainly fun – give your taste buds a treat! We’ll be listing a good selection of the events here.
Swiss recycling rate up to 93% for drinks
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Three billion containers for drinks are sold every year in Switzerland, about 360 per person. Last year the Swiss recycled 93 percent of these for all beverage containers, one prcentage point more than in 2011 – 96 percent for glass, 81 percent for PET plastic containers and 92 percent for aluminum cans. […]
15 years since Swissair 111 crashed
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Today is the 15th anniversary of the crash of Swissair flight 111 off Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia. CBC in Canada carries a memorial article; the crash later appeared to many in Switzerland as the beginning of the end of the national airline and all that it represented, but it also had […]
Growing taste for Rooibos tea a trademark issue
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – South Africa’s beloved herbal tea, rooibos, has become an international favourite in recent years, but the world’s love of the red tea isn’t without problems, centred around trademark issues. A green form of the tea exists, too, but is less common and more expensive to produce. IP Watch in Geneva reports that […]
Annecy fête la gastronomie
Popular festival centred around food and gastronomy, numerous events