Scientists have shed new light on the origins of rice, one of the most important staple foods today.
A study of the rice genome suggests that the crop was domesticated only once, rather than at multiple times in different places — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some of the most fun food ideas are the most simple ones, as is true in the case of these awesome candy skewers from Kim Werker. As she describes, they are the simplest, most time-consuming, impressive dessert EVER
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A few months ago my friend Michal came to a party with the most eye-catching, impressive dessert in the history of not baking. She arrived with two half-litre mason jars with candy skewers sticking out all around. It was a feast of colour and confection!
I can’t imagine how fun it would be to have these brightly colored candy skewers at a party – for kids or adults! — via CRAFT
Happy Anzac Day to my fellow Australians.
You might want to bake some Anzac biscuits today — via WhipUp.net
Craftster user, frenchonion, created these awesome candy coated high heel shoes using rainbow nonpareils and lots of glue and sealer — via CRAFT
Juicy. Extremely Sweet. Visually attractive. Easy to peel. Low seeded. These are the fine qualities that mark KinnowLS
, the latest citrus variety released by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.
Large-sized for a mandarin, the fruit has an orange rind color. The rind is thin and extremely smooth. The 10-11 segments in each fruit are fleshy and deep orange in color — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A nut-based diet product has been recalled around Australia after tests indicated it was highly toxic and possibly lethal.
Australians taking The Latin Seed, which bills itself as a natural weight-loss product and is sold through health stores, chemists and online, are urged to stop doing so immediately — via redwolf.newsvine.com
When I was a kid, we got to use some breakaway sugar glass prop bottles in a drama club play once, and I remember it as being so fun! We had to be careful because the bottles are expensive, but here’s a tutorial for making your own with a silicone mold and some sugar and corn syrup. Documentatian nelson8815 is right, they make a really satisfying shattering noise when you break them over something (or someone) — via CRAFT
Lee of Leethal shares her recipe and process for making orange vanilla liquor. She had me at It tastes just like an adult creamsicle in liquid form!
— via CRAFT
Bake at 350 shares this recipe for yummy peanut butter blossoms. Cute little sugar-dipped peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s Kiss on top — via CRAFT
Makers of Australian pasties have been assured they can still use the term Cornish
despite a trademark ruling by the European Commission — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Performance of mice in discrimination of liquor odors: behavioral evidence for olfactory attention.
We examined performance of mice in discrimination of liquor odors by Y-maze behavioral assays. Thirsty mice were initially trained to choose the odor of a red wine in the Y-maze. After successful training (>70% concordance for each trained mouse), the individual mice were able to discriminate the learned red wine from other liquors, including white wine, rosé wine, sake, and plum liqueur — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Stepping into the kitchen now, Google introduced a recipe search engine Thursday that serves up dishes based not only on the ingredients you may have on hand, but the calories you want to consume and even how much time you have to cook.
About one percent of the queries on Google are for recipes, the company said, and the new vertical intends to make it easier for people to find recipes across the web. Keeping with its search roots, Google isn’t showing the recipes in the results, and is linking to recipes on sites like Epicurious and the Food Network, which likely alleviates some worries about Google’s newest effort — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian brewery has completed the first batch of what might be the most niche beer to be made to date – a beer designed to be drunk in space.
4 Pines Brewing Company is working with space engineers to create a beer to be drunk on commercial space tourist flights starting next year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A schoolgirl from Cairns in far north Queensland has won a top science award for making a hangover-free wine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group supporting genetically-modified (GM) food says the loss of much of Queensland’s banana crop in Cyclone Yasi points to an example of how GM foods could improve food security in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With ingredients such as 20 drops of orange oil, 30 drops of lemon oil and 10 drops of nutmeg oil, it sounds more like a home remedy than a top-secret formula.
But an American radio program claims it has uncovered the exact recipe for Coca-Cola in the pages of a 1979 newspaper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 37-year-old Somerset man can thank fast food for saving his life, after he plugged a serious throat wound with a doner ebab.
James Hobbs was attacked in Highbridge on 15 January after he popped out to Tasty Bitez for some meaty goodness. He suffered a deep cut across the throat, but held the wrapped £3.40 takeaway to his neck for several minutes
until his cousin could provide a towel to stem the flow of blood — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of researchers from the National Association for Producers of Canned Fish and Shellfish (Anfaco-Cecopesca) have initiated a study to genetically identify cephalopods with the most commercial interest, such as squid, giant squid and octopus.
Those involved in the research believe that the development of rapid methods for the authentication of raw materials and their subsequent implementation in production plants, facilitate its entry into the production line and ensure proper labeling
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An amateur wine group has paid a record $77,000 for a 237-year-old bottle of wine from France’s eastern Jura region at a local wine festival auction — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are further calls for the competition regulator to investigate the slashing of milk prices by the big supermarkets after the price of fuel jumped significantly over the weekend — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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