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Food / Travel Ideas Society

Dieting Is Hard — Archeologists Can Help Explain Why

Banning flour and carbs from our diet is unfair considering our history with the grains that helped our ancestors survive. The key is to reduce refined flours — and our guilt.

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Israel-Palestine War

Bread And Fumes: Gaza Fills With Primitive Clay Ovens As Bakeries Shut Down

Faced with a deepening shortage of resources and shuttered bakeries, Palestinians are resorting to makeshift means to survive, using clay ovens fueled by firewood from destroyed homes to cook their food. Resourcefulness that fights famine in the short term but may have long-term health effects.

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Food / Travel Global Gourmet

In Italian Forests, Where The “Bread Of The Poor” Grows

LAURINO — On the way to the mill, I stopped in Stazzema, in the heart of the Apuan Alps, where it was raining. I followed the step-by-step directions that Silvia gave me. She knows the trail well, as she and her partner Alex decided to move to the mill five years ago. This is “Friar’s […]

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Food / Travel Impact: Organic Revolution

Where Italian Tradition Meets Gluten-Free Success

VILLANOVA MONDOVI — Aldo Bongiovanni, a 30-year-old beanpole, laughs timidly. Where others in a crisis-stricken Italy see no hope, he sees opportunity — in a mill in the countryside of the Cuneo province, in northwest Italy, near where he played as a child. “In Italy, complaining is in fashion,” he says. “I can’t stand it […]

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