Fosters, the largest drinks firm in Australian, has put its wine division up for sale, finally acknowledging that the business it spent A$7 million putting together, according to The Economist, was a disaster. The company will now return to its traditional role as a purveyor of Australian beer, with more than 100 brands, but the […]
Food & dining
Will the real Emmentaler cheese please stand up?
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ten percent of the world’s Emmentaler Switzerland cheese is fake, and starting this month, the Swiss government is going after the pirated versions, with a new tool in hand. DNA tests developed by the federal research stations office, Agroscope, can identify cheeses that are not made with a live bacteria that […]
Hard labour: the vegetable patch, before and after
Three days of steady labour, aching bones and sore muscles: but check out that second photo! Visible weeds mostly gone, maverick potatoes, onions and garlic that we overlooked in the fall are also gone, soil is turned over and new onions, potatoes and garlic planted. We’re fairly manic about getting rid of the old potatoes, […]
European health findings: alcohol abuse linked to cancer
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A major European study, published 8 April in the British Journal of Medicine, says that people who drink more than two units or “standard drinks” a day for men and more than one for women are at greater risk of developing alcohol-related cancers. The study followed 363,988 men and women, ages […]
Arvinis opens to English-speaking wine fans this year
Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Arvinis has made overtures to English-speaking winelovers in the past, but this is the year when the region’s major wine event, one of the largest in the country, opens its doors wide to the local international population. The web site is now in English and the special events include a Sunday […]