Food in the News/ by Shelley Lance, Blog Editor
Severe cold snap in Florida causes some “heavy fruit damage.” (Frank and I were in Fort Lauderdale for a day on January 3, on the way back from our family cruise, and it was cold, baby, cold!)
The New York City Health Department is asking for a voluntary 25% reduction in salt in packaged food and restaurant meals, with commentary from my favorite nutrition expert, Marion Nestle. But I also love Francis Lam’s well thought out “Defense of Salt” in Salon (which still makes the case that there’s way too much salt in processed food and the trick is to eat real food, judiciously seasoned).
Race riots (possibly instigated by the Mafia) involving African immigrant labor break out in the citrus groves of Calabria, Italy, according to an article in today’s New York Times. The article examines whether or not this violent incident may start a national dialogue about a situation where “both the official and underground economies increasingly rely on immigrants, while Italy remains torn between acceptance and xenophobia.” Immigrant agricultural workers in Italy “are often paid less than $30 a day picking fruit” and “live in what human rights groups describe as subhuman conditions.”
On a lighter note: Israeli cooks set a world record preparing 9,017 pounds of hummus using a borrowed satelite dish as a mixing bowl! (Found on The Food Section)
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