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A Ray of Hope: G8 to Start Tackling Global Food Crisis

On the Project Concern site, there’s this message: Here is a challenge to consider: tonight - for just one night - go without dinner; go to bed hungry. This act of conviction serves to remind each of us of the global emergency that is currently being described by the World Food Program as the “silent tsunami.”

Imagine having to go without food for days on end as roughly a billion people do on a regular basis. Imagine having to put your kids to sleep at night hungry. How did we get to this point and what did the various governments in the world do to alleviate the hunger and the suffering? Not much, as most States still spend a large portion of their GDP, doggedly, in defense, shoring up armies and armament as if there’s no tomorrow, still drawing invisible battle lines on the earth, water and space.

However, there is movement at the station, to paraphrase Banjo Paterson. Read more »

Porridge, the Food, not the TV series!

Ms AAF cooks porridge once or twice a week, for the girls, before they set off to school. She maintains that it’s incredibly healthy, reasonably priced and filling. I personally hate it though I love Scottish oatcakes. Porridge is a dish which has become associated with Scotland somehow. It is made of oats stewed with either milk or water, and is served with salt or sugar and milk. Our girls love to eat it with maple syrup. Perhaps I should try. However, the porridge history interests me.

The first evidence for dishes resembling porridge is prehistoric. Neolithic farmers cultivated oats along with other crops. Various types of grains and grain meals could be stewed in water to form a thick porridge-like dish.

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