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The smart guys’ lunch? green tea, chocolate, fruit and red wine

11/10/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Swiss cognitive function, measured in Nobels, and chocolate consumption, measured by sales, both high GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A tip, maybe, from the Swiss, who are the world’s innovation winners and who, by 2011, had garnered more Nobel prizes per capita than any other nation: keep eating certain fruits and chocolate and drinking green tea and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: chocolate, cocoa, flavenoids, flavenols, Franz Messerli, fruits, green tea, New England Journal of Medicine, New York, red wine

Planet Menu Tuesday: cut your meat consumption, counsels WWF

14/09/2010 by Ellen Wallace

WWF Switzerland was encouraging us all to have a vegetarian lunch today, and while they didn’t catch some of us on time, their reminder that meat should be the exception, not the rule for meals, will come with me to the supermarket as I buy tonight’s dinner supplies. If you eat meat in moderation six […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: environmental footprint, fruits, Green, meat consumption, planet, vegetables, vegetarian, WWF

Best little food shop in Switzerland!

07/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Ed. note: Ellen Wallace is posting stories on food during Jonell’s absence; she’ll be back in mid-September. La Potagère in St-Pierre-de-Clages, Valais, is a mix of gourmand excellence, no frills and over-the-top whimsy By Ellen Wallace Click on images to view larger There might be another food shop somewhere in Switzerland that equals this one […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: confitures, epicerie, Foodie news and events, fruits, gourmand, jams, La Potagère, Marie-Cécile Buchard, Pascal Couchepin, St-Pierre-de-Clages, Switzerland, Valais, vegetables, Where to buy it

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