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Mediterranean Diet keeps you younger !

adacooks — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:42:26 +0000

Following a Mediterranean diet might be a recipe for a long life because it appears to keep people genetically younger, say US researchers.

Another reason to try recipes from ada cooks italy

Tutti a dieta con la pasta

adacooks — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:59:44 +0000

Worried about your weight – try the pasta diet

Where our food comes from

adacooks — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:26:23 +0000

You cannot always believe what is written on the can. Any British shopper browsing Asda’s supermarket shelves for a touch of the Mediterranean culinary lifestyle might have been forgiven for thinking that the labels on the cans of an own-brand tomato puree meant what they said. After all, they read: “Produced in Italy”.

But that was not to be quite the whole story, thanks to the often opaque world of EU consumer law. When police in Angri, southern Italy, raided Asda’s supplier, they found the tomato puree had been imported from China.

The Quality of Our Food

adacooks — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:15:53 +0000

We are lucky enough to be able to buy olive directly from the producers, and this article below on the Investigative Reporting Project Italy site shows that in the face of increasing demand for olive oil in China and the US, there is an increasing tendency for unscrupulous producers to provide sub-standard or even faked oil. We have been struck by how cheaply some olive oil is sold here in France, sometimes half the price of what we pay when buying straight from the producers – this article may point to the reasons for this…

http://irpi.eu/valpesana-procura-di-siena-trova-il-deodorato/

Italiani i più longevi in Europa – 81 anni

adacooks — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:03:13 +0000

Italiani i più longevi in Europa: 81 anni. Gli inglesi: “Fumate e bevete, inspiegabile”

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