Who knew tomatoes were such a popular thing in canton Geneva?
Lovely Carouge hosts a two-day affair celebrating the mighty fruit – that also likes to pass a vegetable ;).
A real tomatina!
Food & dining
Online buying for Swiss wines gets boost (correction)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND /AMONG THE VINES – Two specialist sellers of quality Swiss wines are combining their activities, a boost for Swiss wine fans. Cellier Romand, which has been marketing discovery cartons of three quality wines a month from French-speaking Switzerland, has ceded its business to Swiss Wine Selection. The latter is an online business started […]
Swiss, US scientists find way to predict insect damage
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The currant clearwing moth may not be a household name, but it you love gooseberry pie or jam you’ll want to thank a pair of researchers who’ve found a way to predict the damage it can cause to farmers’ commercial crops of the fruit. Ian Pearse from Cornell Universisty in the US […]
Swiss wine competition draws record number entries
Winners will be named in October GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – A record number of wines, some 31,00, are entered in Switzerland’s national wine competition, a sign that times are tough for winemakers, but also that the 7-year-old competition is now widely accepted in the industry as the benchmark for Swiss wines as […]
Geneva to Neuchatel, recovering from storm (update 2, new video)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday morning dawned calm and quiet, if not exactly peaceful in the greater Lake Geneva region, following Thursday’s hail storm and wildly windy, rainy weather. The Geneva to Lausanne stretch of lakeshore and hillsides running up to the Jura, as well as the ridge and slopes running the length of the Jura […]