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Especially not on store shelves. Because although prices have already fallen on global markets, they fell from the record level of 4.40 USD per pound, due to forecasts of record coffee harvests in Brazil, which accounts for one-third of global coffee production. But the exchange price and the retail shelf price are two completely different … Read more
PwC’s recurring consumer sentiment survey in the UK shows a global trend. The UK consumer confidence index dropped from -1 in January to -13 (sic!), while 9 out of 10 consumers are worried about the cost of living. 8 out of 10 want to reduce spending in the near future. 40% of respondents want to buy … Read more
Asparagus is one of those vegetables whose popularity and the excitement people feel about them are completely beyond me. Probably partly because all my life I’ve liked strong, intense experiences — culinary ones too — and the delicate, refined asparagus, together with the typical upper-class cultural aura surrounding this vegetable, is just completely unattractive to … Read more
If someone had told me even two months ago that I’d be sitting there flushed with excitement, emotionally invested, spending even several hours a day watching television, I’d have told them to… take a long hard look at themselves. Because ever since I moved out of my parents’ place at twenty (let’s politely call it … Read more
Mondelez International is guilty of misleading consumers! The ruling concerns a lawsuit filed last year by the consumer association Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. over the company reducing the size of Milka chocolate bars from 100 g to 90 g without clearly informing consumers. Milka Alpine Milk received the title of “deceptive packaging of the year 2025” … Read more
Do you like coffee? Especially Arabica? Are you, like me, addicted to caffeine? If so, that’s a bit of a problem. Arabica, which makes up nearly three-quarters of global coffee production, is less bitter and contains less caffeine, but it’s far more valued for its flavor. The cheaper Robusta, with its less pleasant earthy and … Read more
Let’s be honest — everybody loves mayonnaise. If you leave mayonnaise, a spoon, and a human being alone in one room, only years of willpower training will stop that person from absolutely demolishing the mayo straight from the jar. It’s like fries — evolutionarily speaking, it’s simply the best. But nowadays, those extra kilos and … Read more
At least 50 people across seven countries — more than half of them in Finland — have been infected with Salmonella. The most likely cause was… sprouts. From Italy. Products like sprouts and microgreens — so often treated as part of a healthy fitness diet, eaten raw, added as garnish, to salads and slaws — … Read more
My favorite way to spend a day off for the last few years (as long as I’m not cooking during that free time) is a short one-day trip somewhere nearby. Exactly since the pandemic, when I was sitting alone in the forest and, so as not to lose my mind, I started walking around the … Read more
Food is an energy-intensive game, whether we are talking about industrial production and processing or cooking at home. Or, of course, intermediate stages such as a professional production kitchen. It’s worth taking a look at our kitchen energy consumption and how we can reduce it.And not so much in the kitchen itself, because a lot … Read more