Leyte-made Renucci Rice is the world’s third best. Although a last-minute entry in the World Rice Conference in Makati, November 2019, it beat 27 other varieties in appearance, texture, moisture, aroma and grain length. Only perennial winners Vietnam and Thailand, preparing two years, bested i

The much-awaited summer sale on Amazon is back and it's time to equip your kitchen with the best products available at discounted rates. We invest a lot of time and effort in our kitchen, cooking different kinds of meals requiring different ingredients, including cooking oil. If we need olive oil fo

Mainly sunny. High 56F. Winds W at 15 to 25 mph.. A few clouds overnight. Low 36F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.A subway passes by a gas station in Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday. A cut in oil production is on the table when OPEC oil-producing countries meet Wednesday.A s

Why are there so many more readers’ picks this year? The Current’s critics get to flip our thumbs up and down all year long. Best of SA gives you the opportunity to tell your fellow residents what you think — in a collective, quasi-democratic fashion. Our goal is to create a fairly comprehe

"This Christmas I desperately want to reach from the streets into people's homes, where individuals may be alone or struggling to bring us all together this Christmas time." A woman from Manchester is hosting a free Christmas dinner this December to help people who are struggling to eat and heat t

Laura Denby is a New York-based food and wine writer who focuses on finding the best kitchen equipment for home cooks. She has a Culinary Arts diploma from the Institute of Culinary Education and a WSET Level 2 Award in Wine and Spirits. Her work has appeared on leading food publications like Food N

When Niueans are babies, their parents traditionally take them down to the seashore and throw them in the water so they learn to swim, Mona Ainu’u told Mongabay. That’s more important in Niue than most places. The country’s 260-square-kilometer (100-square-mile) land area is a single chunk of

One of the most notable climate change provisions in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is the first U.S. federal tax on a greenhouse gas (GHG). That the fee targets methane (CH4), rather than carbon dioxide (CO2), emissions is indicative of the urgency the scientific community has placed on reducing

Dehusking and shelling are important post-harvest activities in maize crop, predominantly done by women. These activities involve a lot of drudgery as these are done manually.Though hand operated maize sheller has somewhat eased the pressure on women shelling maize, the tool still makes women's

Is an automatic service fee, charged by some restaurants in New Jersey, essentially the same thing as a tip?Not necessarily, according to the New Jersey Business and Industry Association.Coming off the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and with inflation at highs not seen in decades, at least a few bu