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Caper: the flower you eat before it blooms! A key ingredient of Mediterannean dishes, the pickled flower buds of the caper bush (Capparis spinosa) are an antioxidant powerhouse, contain essential minerals such as copper and are a good source of vitamin K among other benefits. Before eating them from a jar, you only need to soak them for a few minutes in cold water to remove the excess salt. If...Caper: the flower you eat before it blooms! A key ingredient of Mediterannean dishes, the pickled flower buds of the caper bush (Capparis spinosa) are an antioxidant powerhouse, contain essential minerals such as copper and are a good source of vitamin K among other benefits. Before eating them from a jar, you only need to soak them for a few minutes in cold water to remove the excess salt. If you wonder why a small jar is so expensive, try picking them one by one, while avoiding the thorns! This post is dedicated to the late Nikki Rose, a culinary tourism and agri-ecotourism pioneer and Chef, who passed away a year ago while guiding students on one of her wonderful educational tours in Crete. Nikki used the caper flower as a profile photo... Show more
Free news services are fine -- some are even of higher quality than paid ones. Free news services that keep begging you, the reader, for money, because "they do not charge readers", "they do not have sponsors", "they do not really like money but somehow they need it" or for any other nonsense reason, are to be avoided.
If ultimately successful, I think "Delcyism" could become a concise way to describe saving yourself by sacrificing your colleagues, ideals etc. "Oil Socialism" was never a good idea in the first place... www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx29k97kzlo
Delcy Rodríguez: Will Venezuelan oil earn a permanent place in India's energy mix?
Delcy Rodríguez's India visit highlights Venezuela's growing role in Delhi's oil diversification.
In terms of human and environmental exploitation, tragedy and disaster, few sectors can rival Coal Mining, a productivist icon in both "capitalist" and "communist" systems. Isn't it time to END this totally unneeded sector worldwide? www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwpeg57777o
China's coal mine disaster is a reminder of its darkest days
China's worst coal mining disaster in 15 years comes amid an ambitious pivot towards green energy.