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Friday, April 21, 2017

Are Y'all A Nutrient Waster? - Become Global Today

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My children are all grown now, as well as they volition all tell you lot that their mom ever says "Don't waste materials food. Children are starving inwards Africa." 

Yes I said it as well as I'll state it again! 

You know what else? My mom used to state the same affair to me! 

And it's non merely Africa either! It's all to a greater extent than or less the world! 

 Now I'm lx years one-time as well as the lamentable affair is that it was truthful when my mom said it as well as it was likely truthful earlier she said it. 

It's 2020 as well as it's all the same true!

WHY???!!! There's no excuse for it!!
" ... 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion pounds of the available nutrient furnish at the retail as well as consumer levels went uneaten inwards the USA ..."
"... xl part of all nutrient inwards the USA was never eaten. ..."


Sorry. This is i of those things inwards this globe that actually perturbs me. Every fourth dimension I encounter it, listen it or read most it, I pause out the megaphone as well as maiden of all preaching!! Each time, I promise the words are non falling on deaf ears.





In my mind's eye, the reverse of WASTE is CHARITY. 

OK. So you lot can't destination globe hunger. But is at that topographic point non i human activeness of charity that you lot tin flame homecoming to some other person? Is at that topographic point actually zip you lot tin flame create most people starving?

 Charity never fails.






Friday, April 14, 2017

Everyday Exotic Spices: Zanzibar Spices & Heritage Centre: The Continuing Story

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A few years back, stumbled across an article detailing a delightful concern success storey nearly the efforts of Mzee Foum Garu aka Foum Ali Garu, a spice farmer inwards Zanzibar. 

 Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago off the coast of Tanzania. Zanzibar as well as Pemba, its sis island, convey a reputation for their spices. Spice farm tours are conducted for travelers to Tanzania. Tourists larn the origins as well as history of the spices produced inwards Zanzibar, their culinary as well as medicinal properties, as well as the traditional local uses. They every bit good acquire to sample roughly delicious local dishes as well as a tasty “Tea Masala”. Natives as well as unusual students are invited to enroll at the Kizimbani Agricultural Training Institute of Zanzibar to larn fifty-fifty to a greater extent than via an internship or a volunteer project.  Mr. Garu played an integral business office inwards promoting as well as developing these tours as well as preparation courses.
Image credit: Spice farm, Zanzibar past times Mark, on Flickr




The arrangement founded past times Mr. Garu was mentioned inwards the 2013 write-up every bit “Zanzibar Organic Spice Products”. It is currently operating nether the holler “Zanzibar Organic Spice Growers (ZOSG)”, as well as every bit good recognized past times the holler “Zanzibar Spices & Heritage Centre”. Mzee Foum Garu combined his experience, cognition as well as skills for farming spices amongst several other small-scale farmers as well as they grow a broad make of cash crops. In improver to spices (cardamom, vanilla, betel nut, turmeric, cinnamon, curry leaves as well as nutmeg), they cultivate many tropical fruits as well as vegetables (such every bit hairy litchi, durian as well as jack fruit), as well as plants as well as trees (such every bit moringa, the henna plant, as well as the lipstick tree). There is a growing European marketplace position for these nutrient products cultivated past times the zanzibari farmers.
Image credit: Zanzibar Spices & Heritage Centre

The article that inspired this shipping service was dated 2013, however, Foum Ali Garu began his hold out inwards the 90s. It's slap-up to read that Garu's success has continued as well as that other local farmers are every bit good benefitting from the agricultural initiatives he started as well as the entire percentage is profiting.





Interesting Food History: The offset spices plantations were established past times the Sultanate of Oman Sultan Sayid Sa’id inwards the 19th century.    "Seyyid Said." Encyclopedia of World Biography. . Encyclopedia.com. sixteen Oct. 2017 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.                     

Ingredients inwards this spice mound: 
Coriander, mustard, fennel, turmeric, cumin, sweetness paprika, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, chocolate-brown sugar, cayenne pepper, dark pepper, cloves as well as white pepper.



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