Viele nette Kommentare und E-Mails haben mich überzeugt: Ich habe jetzt auch noch Erdbeerfelder, auf denen man selbst pflücken kann, in Sachsen (in den Regionen um Dresden, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Bautzen) mit in meine Liste mit Erdbeerfeldern in Deutschland aufgenommen. Wie auch bei den anderen Teilen dieser Serie gilt: Vorher anrufen kann vor Enttäuschungen schützen.
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Erdbeeren selbst pflücken in Sachsen (Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz)
This week’s One Local Summer meal(s) were inspired by the beautiful Crispino iceberg lettuce I bought from Wayward Seed Farm at the farmers market last Saturday. With lettuce so fresh and crisp, it was just begging for me to make a BLT with mostly local ingredients. The bacon was from Thurn’s, the tomatoes from WishWell Farms, and the bread was Vienna bread from The Andersons.
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OLS Week 3: BLT Bonanza
Cheikh Mukhtar carries the body of 20-month-old Anfac Anwar Mohammed across the family compound minutes after she died from starvation at Dagahaley camp in Dadaab in Kenya’s northeastern province. (Photo: Reuter Pictures) Rome – The global financial meltdown has pushed the ranks of the world’s hungry to a record 1 billion, a grim milestone that poses a threat to peace and security, UN food officials said yesterday
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UN: One Billion People Are Hungry Every Day
Banh Mi 172 Vietnamese Restaurant Williamsburg Brooklyn 172 Bedford Ave (Bet N7th and N8th) Williamsburg Brooklyn NY 718 384 0028 Open 7 days 10-11pm Sun – Thurs 10 – 1AM Fri – Sat If you’ve been following my posts, you’ve probably noticed my recent obsession with banh mi sandwiches . Luck would have it that a small banh mi sandwich shop opened up a few weeks ago in Williamsburg
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Banh Mi 172 Vietnamese Restaurant Williamsburg Brooklyn
Aditya Birla Retail (ABRL), a retailing arm of Kumar Mangalam Birla group, which recorded a whopping growth in turnover of 110 percent in FY 2008-09, is well on its way to achieve further growth in sales turnover of 40 to 45 per cent this fiscal (2009-10). ABRL, which currently operates a retail chain of around 650 food and grocery supermarket format and hypermarket format stores under the brand name of ‘More for You,’ according to Thomas Varghese CEO, achieved sales of nearly Rs 1,150 crore during the financial year ending 31st March, 2009 (2008-09) against previous year’s turnover of around Rs 550 crore, is expecting to garner sales volume of about Rs 1,700 crore this fiscal ending 31st March, 2010 (2009-10). Buoyed by the growth, most of which has come from expansion of the retail network, the company is looking at taking the tally of stores to 720 to 730 stores by adding 60 to 70 stores (80 new stores less 10 t0 20 stores under shut down) during the current financial year ending 31st March, 2010.
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‘More’ records 110% growth in sales turnover; plans 70 new stores and 45% growth in turnover this fiscal
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s government has failed to crack down on one of the world’s largest markets of illegal ivory, allowing vendors to openly sell products that come from African elephants, a conservation group said in a report released Friday.The group TRAFFIC, which monitors trade in wildlife, said that judging by recent seizures of ivory imports and exports and several surveys it has done since 2006, Thailand has surpassed traditional hotspots like Japan and China .Hundreds of venues from five-star hotels to the popular Chatuchak weekend market in the capital, Bangkok — which has by far the biggest markets in the country — were found to be selling tens of thousands of items, from pricey carvings of religious deities to cheaper bangles, belt buckles and knife handles.Much of the illegal ivory is smuggled from central African countries to workshops outside Bangkok, the British-based conservation group said. Merchants in the capital and to a lesser degree tourist cities like Chiang Mai sell the ivory products to locals as well as foreign tourists, benefiting from loopholes in current laws that make it hard to crack down on the trade
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Report: Thailand fails to crack down on ivory bazaars, much of it from African elephants
Having few customers, a lot of 5-star hotels and resorts have decided to slash service fees or offer discounts. Vinpearl in Nha Trang Returning from a 4-day trip to Nha Trang city, Nga in the Dinh Cong new urban area in Hanoi related that her big family had a wonderful holiday there for a very good price. Her family, comprising 24 members, booked rooms at Vinpearl at $125 per night only from June 3 to 6, nearly a 50 percent decrease in comparison with the previous rate of $200 per night.
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5-star hotels, resorts offering big discounts
MANILA: Nuclear power is emerging as a key option as a source of “green energy” for most developing Asian countries, as they seek to stem the spike in greenhouse gas emission that came with the region’s economic success, experts who participated in a Manila forum said. The growing concern over climate change and how it will hurt the region’s environment, human health and economy has forced economic planners, advocates and business leaders in Asia to search for a stable energy source that can moderate the carbon emissions, China’s Xinhua news agency cited them as saying. “Developing Asian countries whether they like it or not should take a look at nuclear power as a source of energy,” said Piyasvasti Amranand, chief advisor of the Bangkok-based Energy for Environment Foundation and former Thai energy minister at the closing of the Asia Clean Energy Forum on Friday.
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Nuclear power emerges as green option for Asia
Croma, among the leading consumer electronics and durables retail chains of the country, owned by Infiniti Retail (a Tata group company), which currently operates 32 retail stores across large cities, is back on expansion drive. The company is planning a three-fold expansion of its retail network in the next three years. Croma expects have a network of over 100 stores by 2011. Croma has also created a compact store format called ‘Croma Zip’ for its expansion model as it is eyeing to penetrate deep into smaller but growing tier II and tier III markets.
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Croma undertakes three-fold expansion; plans to set up 100 stores by 2011
Small Plates -Open faced lobster Ravioli: tomatoes and champagne leek butter…10.25 -Flash fried softshell crab: zucchini noodles, cherry tomatoes, and grapefruit vinaigrette…9.75 Raw Plates -Black pepper-herbed local goat chevre: pickled watermelon rind and lemon cucumber jelly…7.95 -Mixed field greens: vidalia onions, herbed croutons, pecorino, and balsamic ranch…7.75 Big Plates -Golden raisin-pumpkin seed brasied bone-in beef short rib: spinach, leeks, toasted punpkin seeds…24.25 -Dayboat gulf grouper: spiganello liscia, geode squash, and yellow corn vinaigrette…24.95 Second Mortgage -6 oz. petite filet: smashed new potatoes, asparagus, and chimichurri -Parmensan salted lamb loin: cippolini onions and mint demi Dessert Plates- All Desserts 3.95 -Georgia peach tart tatin: brown sugar and cardamom ice cream -Warm chocolate pudding cake: vanilla ice cream, heath bar bits, and chocolate sauce -Blueberry cobbler: brown sugar crumb topping and blueberry ice cream -Key lime pie: sweetened whipped cream and raspberry sauce
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Rathbun’s Specials- June 19, 2009
Dass ich gern aufs Gut Wulksfelde fahre, hat mehrere Gründe: Vor über 10 Jahren lernte ich das Gut im Rahmen eines Gärtnerkurses kennen und die Lage am Rande von Duvenstedt weckt Erinnerungen, weil ein Teil meiner Familie in den Walddörfern wohnt und ich als Kind dort sehr schöne Sonnentage verlebt habe. Wer dieses Blog schon längere Zeit liest, weiß, dass ich schon ausgiebig über das Kartoffelnausbuddeln am Kartoffeltag und das Erdbeerenpflücken auf Gut Wulksfelde geschrieben habe
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Hofführung auf Gut Wulksfelde
The way people would grab a takeaway in Victorian London was to purchase a pie from one of the 600 piemen that walked up and down the streets. You could choose between a meat pie, a fruit, fish or an eel one, these would be sold straight off their trays, the transaction was done from the pavement as most couldn’t afford the outlay for a shop to sell their goods from. The piemen would have to wake early and row their boats over to the British and foreign vessels that moored up on the river Thames, from here their stock of fish would be transported over to the legendry Billingsgate Market, established in 1600s.
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A Brief History of Pie and Mash
A parliamentary standing committee on commerce in its report titled “Foreign and Domestic Investment in Retail Sector” submitted to the government has recommended imposition of a blanket ban on foreign direct investment (FDI) in retail. “The committee…recommend that a blanket ban should be imposed on domestic corporate heavyweights and foreign retailers from entering into retail trade in grocery, fruits and vegetables,” said the report. The committee, comprising 40 parliamentarians from various political parties from both the Loksabha and Rajyasabha, was headed by Murli Manohar Joshi- a veteran BJP parliamentarian and former HRD minister in the NDA government
Small Plates -Ravioli of the day: sauteed lobster, yellow corn, chantrelle mushrooms and roasted cippolini onions…10.95 -Flash fried sofshell crab, zucchini noodles, cherry-tomatoes and ruby red grapefruit vinaigrette…9.75 Raw Plates -Black pepper-herbed chevre, pickled watermelon rind and lemon-cucumber jelly…8.25 -Arugula, shaved pecorino, toasted pecans, vidalia onions and beet vinaigrette…7.75 Big Plates -Pan roasted pompano, snow peas, golden berries and cilantro vinaigrette…25.75 Second Mortgage -Lobster crusted 6 oz. petite filet w/ a warm spinach salad…29.25 Dessert Plates- All Desserts 3.95 -Warm dark chocolate pudding cake, vanilla ice cream, heath bar bits, chocolate sauce -Georgia peach mousse parfait, sweet tea syrup soaked coconut cake, sweetened whipped cream, raspberries -Blueberry and raspberry cobbler, brown sugar crumb topping, blueberry ice cream -Key lime pie, sweetened whipped cream, raspberries
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Rathbun’s Specials- June 18, 2009
You can stay in five-star luxury at seriously cut-price rates. Find out how.
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Top secret cheap hotels: Martin Lewis, Full info at moneysavingexpert.com/hotels
Most of the schools in US have closed down for summer and people are frantic planning their family vacations as the heat turns up in Sunny California! For those of you who have not yet experienced the sunny shores and the cool waters of the Pacific, here’s something that could get you closer to a romantic Southern California getaway, which also includes a surprise package for food-lovers like me! As the economy vacillates between good and not-so-good forecasts, everyone is looking for a way… Please Click the Title for the Full Post
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Free Weekend Getaway with Chef Bonnie
Mistress of make-up Bobbi Brown has worked her magic on the fairest faces all over the world in the name of beauty, staying at some pretty praiseworthy places on her travels, too. We cast our eyes Stateside to New York (we’ll be adding more hot New York hotels to our online collection soon) and get some sneaky insider tips from the lady herself on the prime places to go and the all-important packing essentials to get there in style… ········································································· As much as we delight at the thought of sneaking away to a gorgeous boutique hotel, there’s one thing here at Smith HQ that really gets our goat: airport regulations . Don’t get us wrong, we’re all for safety and security , but stuffing our specially selected stock into pokey plastic bags makes us want to weep a wee bit. Well, let us invite you in on a luxury travel-set secret – Bobbi’s got a nifty new range of Travel Empties to solve the problem.
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Beauty buff Bobbi Brown’s New York tips
The other morning I woke up with a craving for a hearty vegetarian breakfast. Red potato home fries sounded like just the thing- and so did a tasty tofu breakfast saute. I poked around in the refrigerator and found some mustard, which made me think of how lovely tofu would be with a sweet mustard sauce, nutritional yeast, and veggies
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Gluten-Free Vegetarian or Vegan Recipes: Honey Mustard Peach Tofu Salad Recipe
Wildfire Eden Prairie Offers a Unique Wine Dinner Experience Featuring Duroc Compart Pork and Pinot Noir Eden Prairie , Minn. – Pork and pinot lovers will be treated to a four course meal and wine pairing, all for $55 a person at Wildfire Eden Prairie’s upcoming summer wine dinner on Friday, June 26. Executive Chef Tom Gladbach is teaming up with local, family-owned Compart Family Farms to create the evening’s menu. Compart Duroc pork is known for its superior tenderness and natural juiciness. Compared to other pork, Compart Duroc has more marbling and a higher pH, without injecting or pumping – a flavor difference guests are sure to notice. Gladbach’s four course meal will feature bacon wrapped lobster and shrimp skewers, wood roasted pork tenderloin and braised pork shank
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Wildfire Eden Prairie ~ Pork & Pinot Noir Wine Dinner
ANOI – Media sources in Vietnam say the largest-ever Vietnamese tourism promotion, Impressive Vietnam”, jointly organised by Vietnam Airlines and tourist companies to attract foreign tourists, has failed to deliver. Saigon Daily reports that after just five months of the nine month promotion, many businesses have withdrawn from the campaign after several shortcomings were revealed. Operators have complained that they have been unable to arrange tours because Vietnam Airlines, which backed the promotion with discounted fares, has been unable to reveal how many discounted seats they will make available.
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International tourists unimpressed by Impressive Vietnam-18 June, 2009