Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The hottest change in the airline industry is the rapid move to BCBP, bar code boarding passes, whose use has nearly doubled in the past year. By the end of 2010 airports should have 100 percent BCBP coverage, meaning that airlines should be able to adopt this service if they want […]
Brasserie Lipp: the brasserie of all brasseries
Brasserie Lipp Geneva: a model for all brasseries The Brasserie Lipp in Geneva even tops the one in Paris. Some may say that’s not difficult to do in a sleepy, provincial town like Geneva, but it is not so simple as that. It’s l’ensemble, the “package” with all its details, that makes it work to […]
Swiss grapes loved August, drinkers will love 2009 wines
Nyon, Switzerland (Geneva, Switzerland) – Swiss wines, vintage 2009, will be among those loved and remembered by consumers, thanks in large part to a warm, sunny and dry August that was enjoyed equally by humans and grapes. The 2009 official wine results are in, from the federal agricultural station Changins, near Nyon, and the news […]
Tempted by Tentation apples
by Ellen Wallace New variety of apples available in Switzerland: Tentation I’m fussy about apples because I grow my own, four varieties, and I find too many supermarket apples soft or tasteless or too sweet or too acidic. New apples are constantly being developed, but like many consumers, I’m set in my ways and am […]
Geneva wines can hug French grapes again
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva AOC wines can now move back, in 2010, to what many of them traditionally were: wines that resulted from the marriage of grapes from Geneva, Switzerland and the part of France that sits just over the border. The “mixed committee” charged, under the European Union and Switzerland agricultural agreement of […]