Cuisine of the Southwestern United States

Mexico City hosts chili pepper festival

Agencia EFEMay 22, 2013 14:48

Mexico City, May 22 (EFE).- Chili peppers and sauces will take center stage at a festival being held this week in Mexico City, where the spicy plant, one of the pillars of Mexican cuisine, will be honored, organizers said. The 1st Chilis, Sauces and Mortars Festival, which will be held Friday to Sunday, is being organized by the Enchilada Fair, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. Mexico exports 560,000 tons of chili peppers annually, both fresh and dry peppers, making it the world's No. 2 producer of the spicy products.

Column: Five days below the poverty line

Thomson ReutersMay 10, 2013 20:50

By Dan Wilchins (Reuters) - My wife Becky and I experimented with radically cutting our food costs last week as part of a fundraising campaign created by a hunger charity. Under the "Live Below The Line" campaign sponsored by the Global Poverty Project, an Australian charity, for five days we spent $1.50 per person per day on food, which is the extreme poverty line globally, according to the World Bank.

Horsemeat found at British Taco Bell restaurants

Agence France-PresseMarch 1, 2013 11:46

Horsemeat has been found in ground beef supplied to Taco Bell's three restaurants in Britain after tests sparked by Europe's sprawling food scandal, the US fast food giant said Friday. Taco Bell said it was "disappointed" by the discovery and had immediately withdrawn ground beef from the restaurants, two of which are in shopping centres in Essex, east of London, and one of which is in Manchester, northwest England.