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• Tetra Pak’s canning plan to convert big and small food from tins to paper

  01-04-2025 12:03 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Packaging manufacturer Tetra Pak plans to dominate the food and drink industry by converting traditional can and bottle packs into its Recart solution
  
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• Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked feta with blood oranges, and aubergine and haricot beans

  06-04-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Substantial dishes for when spring afternoons get colderIt has been a week of bright, sunny days that suddenly turn into chilly evenings. The sort of weather that can wreak havoc with dinner plans. Twice this week I have had to make last-minute changes when the temperature dropped.What started out as a light supper of stuffed aubergine ended up being rethought as a more substantial offering, the aubergines layered with haricot beans and chilli-spiked tomatoes under a thyme and breadcrumb crust.
  
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• Feeding the soul: Laurie Woolever on food, addiction – and working with Anthony Bourdain

  06-04-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Working alongside NY’s hottest chefs took its toll on Laurie Woolever, but in a new memoir she opens up about her battles with drinking, drugs – and losing her friendLaurie Woolever is an expert on indulgence. The first time we met was in a dimly lit omakase restaurant in downtown Tokyo, in the summer of 2017. We were both in Japan on respective work trips. Woolever was researching a travel book she was writing with her boss, the chef Anthony Bourdain, and I was filming a CNN digital
  
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• Great Georgian wines to lift your Easter feast

  06-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Easter lunch means lamb in one form or another for many of us, and nothing sets the flavour off better than wines made with the saperavi grapeM&S Found Saperavi, Kakheti, Georgia 2022 (£11, Ocado.com; Marks & Spencer) At a time of year when many of us are gearing up to prepare a lamb-based feast for Easter, the food and wine culture of Georgia offers a novel way of approaching a meal that is, for most of us, rather less hidebound by family traditions than Christmas dinner. This cor
  
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• Giovanni’s on The Hayes, Cardiff: ‘The smell of wine and hot tomatoes’ – restaurant review

  06-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The actor and writer returns to a childhood favourite for a large slice of family nostalgiaGiovanni’s on The Hayes, 38 The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AJ (029 2022 0077;
  giovanniscardiff.co.uk). Starters from £4.55; pizza from £12.55; mains from £14.95; desserts from £7.30; wines from £28Places from your childhood age slower than you do. Giovanni’s is a family-run Italian restaurant in the centre of Cardiff. While most of the landmarks of my childhood have gone
  
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• ‘Too sticky. Too saucy. Too weird’: could I persuade my son to eat the food of my heritage?

  05-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors. Unfortunately, he had other ideas …My family takes food very seriously. So seriously that when my mother’s family left Iraq in 1971, limited to 20kg of luggage each, they found room for not one but two rolling pins. The truth is that, having used the r
  
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• ‘Cute, but doesn’t taste too good’: the best (and worst) Easter chocolate treats, tested

  05-04-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From bunnies to, er, squirrels and croissants, these Easter chocs are a cute alternative to traditional eggs. But are they any good? Our in-house chocolate fiend finds out …• The best stand mixers to make baking easierI’m a big chocolate lover, and Easter is as good a time as any to branch out, try something new and spend a few extra pounds on something special. While the wheel doesn’t need reinventing, it’s been particularly fun to see a lot more unconventional sha
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for butternut squash with noodles

  05-04-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A tom-yum style bowl bursting with aromatic Thai flavoursThis is probably a middle-aged thing, but it only takes something small to make my day. Usually, that’s bumping into a friend on the school run, spotting a cheeky green parakeet in the tree-tops or lighting a few candles at dinner in the evening. When it comes to food and today’s recipe, however, I rather childishly like to say the words “noodle soup” out loud, as if my mouth is pursing in anticipation of the noodle
  
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• How to turn excess egg yolks into an umami-packed flavouring – recipe | Waste not

  05-04-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  You’ve made your giant meringue or your marshmallows, but what to do with all those surplus egg yolks? Cure them in salt and turn them into a super-savoury condiment, that’s whatSalt-cured egg yolks are incredibly simple to make and a great way to use up leftovers when you’ve used the whites in another dish. They are intensely savoury, umami-rich and a vibrant, golden colour, much like bottarga, or Italian-style cured fish roe. Once dried, they take on a firm, grateable consist
  
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• Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for double chocolate brownie tart | The sweet spot

  04-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A rich and indulgent layered chocolate dessert, with a crunchy biscuit base and a tangy, salted creme fraiche toppingThis is one for the chocolate lovers (myself included). It’s rich and indulgent, which is why I love it. I can be a bit of a brownie purist – no nuts, ever! – but here I make an exception. The biscuit base stays nice and crunchy, while the tangy, salted creme fraiche topping cuts through some of the richness. You can serve this while it’s still warm for som
  
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• Trump’s trade war has begun: How industry can successfully navigate the change

  04-04-2025 15:45 via foodnavigator.com
  
  President Trump implemented tariffs on what he called 'Liberation Day', on 3 April 2025. We look at how manufacturers can successfully navigate the changes.
  
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• How industry can successfully navigate Trump’s tariffs

  04-04-2025 15:45 via foodnavigator.com
  
  President Trump implemented tariffs on what he called 'Liberation Day', on 3 April 2025. We look at how manufacturers can successfully navigate the changes.
  
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• Voyage with Adam Simmonds, London NW1: ‘A bit like eating at a weight-loss camp’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

  04-04-2025 13:03 via theguardian.com
  
  It takes thousands of hours in a hot kitchen to cook like thisKing’s Cross in London is a place where a million voyages begin and end, each and every week. Which may explain why so much cash has been thrown at the area around the station to turn it into “an aspirational lifestyle destination”, rather than somewhere to stomp through grumpily while dragging a suitcase.By and large, however, this proposed glow-up has failed – the Euston Road will always be an unlovable, mult
  
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• Moving Mountains moves away from processing

  04-04-2025 12:21 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Moving Mountains is responding to consumer scepticism about food processing with its latest range.
  
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• What’s next for unstoppable ‘food as medicine’ trend?

  03-04-2025 16:54 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The ‘food as medicine’ trend is growing fast. We discover what’s next for this major player in food and beverage.
  
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• Canned beer imports face 25% tariff in the US

  03-04-2025 16:19 via beveragedaily.com
  
  Brewers are trying to understand the new rules, which will see some beer imports face a levy of 25%
  
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• EU wine sector reels from Trump tariff blow

  03-04-2025 15:29 via beveragedaily.com
  
  Trump's tariffs are bad news for the EU wine industry, more bad news could be to come.
  
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• How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs impact global dairy markets

  03-04-2025 14:19 via dairyreporter.com
  
  Effects on 10% flat tariffs and more on global dairy markets.
  
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• How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ impacts global dairy markets

  03-04-2025 14:19 via dairyreporter.com
  
  Effects on 10% flat tariffs and more on global dairy markets.
  
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• Can EU food & drink pull it together to tackle Trump’s trade tariffs?

  03-04-2025 12:49 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Donald Trump's trade tariffs may bring the European Union together as the bloc fights the economic dynamite
  
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• Food and beverage scrambles to react in wake of Trump ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

  03-04-2025 12:11 via foodnavigator.com
  
  20% tariffs on the EU could hit major European food sectors like wine, cheese, spirits and olive oil.
  
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• European food and beverage enraged at Trump ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

  03-04-2025 12:11 via foodnavigator.com
  
  20% tariffs on the EU could hit major European food sectors like wine, cheese, spirits and olive oil.
  
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• Welcome to ‘Liberation Day’: What the tariffs mean for the EU

  03-04-2025 11:14 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The controversial president’s much anticipated tariffs on countries across the world have been announced, landing the EU with a 20% rate and the UK 10%, despite previous indications the latter could escape.
  
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• Food industry ‘disaster’ imminent investors warned by insiders

  03-04-2025 11:01 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The food and drink industry is heading towards a huge climate-driven meltdown, but the industry is refusing to reveal the true scale of the issue to investors and outsiders.
  
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• Addressing UPFs ‘not main focus for food majors’ like Mondelēz and Ferrero

  02-04-2025 16:42 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Ultra-processed foods are not currently the predominant focus of major companies such as Mondelēz and PepsiCo in improving products' nutritional quality.
  
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• Hybrid cheese sales grow as plant-based ‘fails to satisfy’

  02-04-2025 15:47 via foodnavigator.com
  
  The hybrid food and beverage market is growing fast as increasing numbers of consumers seek to cut down on their animal-based intake. Now scientists are exploring the concept of healthier hybrid cheeses.
  
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• How to cook the perfect roast whole new potatoes – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to cook the perfect …

  02-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While anyone can roast a potato, achieving perfectly crisp-skinned, buttery-fleshed deliciousness requires a little more thought …When I pitched the idea for today’s column, my editor’s response was underwhelming to say the least. “Is that even a recipe?” he asked, which is exactly the attitude that inspired me in the first place. Often the simplest dishes feel in the least need of an actual recipe, yet surely I can’t be alone in thinking that the leathery, g
  
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• ‘GLP-1-boosting’ supplement launched as drug alternative

  02-04-2025 11:50 via foodnavigator.com
  
  What happens to weight when you come off GLP-1 drugs? It can be regained, but a new supplement claims to be an alternative in the market
  
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• Food-on-the-move merger: Greencore to buy Bakkavor for £1.2bn

  02-04-2025 10:50 via bakeryandsnacks.com
  
  Following an initial rejection on 17 March, in a strategic about-face, Bakkavor’s board is now ‘minded unanimously to recommend’ a revised offer.
  
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• 5 ways eco-labelling is falling short of its potential

  02-04-2025 10:03 via foodnavigator.com
  
  Eco-labels still face a range of challenges
  
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