Swiss and international food news 24 February 2010

This week's foodie overview

This post was originally published on the The Rambling Epicure blog GenevaLunch.com.

I spend a lot of time reading, researching and tweeting about food and restaurants these days, so I thought I'd jot down my tweets from the last few days. These are from both The Rambling Epicure and Swiss Foodies and should give you an overview of what's going on in the foodie world this week, in Switzerland and around the world.


These tweets are often focused on Switzerland, but also include a lot of links to Swiss, French, German, British, American, Canadian and other research on food.

Sometimes I couldn't resist writing about the snow and skiing conditions, because that determines how a lot of us in Switzerland plan our weekends, and therefore what restaurants we go to or what recipes we cook up. And of course occasionally, watches and wine . . . and this week, the Vancouver Winter Olympics and those cute wooly pigs you see in the photo.

Remember, these are just tweets

Remember these are just tweets, so they are short and sweet. They are not particularly orderly; I just tweeted the information as I found it.

I suggest you skim over the headings, and if you're interested, just click on any of the links that interest you in order to read the detailed article.

Who knows, this might even tempt you to start tweeting yourself!

The list is long, so I'll list the main topics, which are marked by headings in bold: Restaurants, Recipes, Swiss news, International news, Food trends, Nutrition, health, healthy lifestyle, Chocolate, Wine, Miscellaneous food and related info, Skiing, snow, lifestyle, and Nice quotes.

This week's tweet list

Restaurants


Taste the latest in the food world, the wooly pig, 23 & 24 Feb. at du Chalet-des-Enfants in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne.

Tired of roestis and pasta in Verbier? Good classic French at La Grange, no surprises.



The Rambling Epicure: check out our restaurant listings.

The Bernerhof hotel in Gstaad has a restaurant for everyone's taste: pasta, Chinese, traditional.

Tired of roestis in Zermatt? Check out authentic Japanese cuisine and sushi at Myoko, Seiler Hotel.

The food at King's restaurant Verbier is a delightful mix of English, French, and world influences.

The Walserhof in Klosters is a perfect place to celebrate special occasions, and the food is top notch.

Everything you need to know about eating in Zermatt.

Check out the divine rolled truffle pizza at Quirinale in Geneva.

The Cottage Café in Jardins de Brunswick in Geneva is a great place to meet for afternoon meeting.

Site that lists restaurants in Switzerland that do home delivery.

Gildo's and La Fromagerie restaurant in Gstaad offers fondues with or without truffles.

Try perfect foie gras poêlé at La Table d'Adrien in Verbier. Chic hip place to go as well. Reservations required.

Hostellerie du Pas-de-L'Ours. Great restaurant, old-fashioned winter veg, great variations on classics. Crans-Montana.

Chez Heini: the place to go for good lamb, great wine list.

Curiositas is as much a museum experience as a restaurant experience. Table by the skeleton or the shrunken head?

Restaurant: Vertig'O in Geneva: elegant business lunch with WiFi.

Brasserie Lipp in Geneva: the ultimate brasserie.

London: The VaBene Brewer Street - you have to try it for lunch, quality food great price and quick turnaround.

Recipes

Recipes and flavor combinations for fennel, when you get tired of eating all those root vegetables!

Recipe: Creamed parsnips with roasted winter vegetables and walnuts recipe.

Vinegar sauces both tasty & healthy. Vinegar helps lower blood sugar & lose weight says one study.



Recipe: How about a new twist on roesti: apple roesti.

Recipes for dessert lovers, especially good chocolate recipes, by pastry chef Pierre Hermé.

Kids in the Kitchen: chocolate and orange mousse recipe, a good Wednesday afternoon family activity.

Recipe: Sautéed Whiting With Lemon Cream Sauce.

The Rambling Epicure: Recipe: lazy man's breakfast: cappuccino oats.

Recipe: pulled pork and updated coleslaw. Great on a winter's day.

Winter recipe: Pork Stew with Hard Cider, Pearl Onions, and Potatoes.

Seasonal recipe: Seville orange and almond cake, adapted to European kitchens.

Gordon Ramsay's 10 easy Indian recipes.

The great cardoon, Geneva's AOC vegetable.

Winter recipe: cream of parsnip soup with aged Mimolette cheese.

Recipe: cheese tart washed down with good beer is the Basel tradition.

MyKugelhopf hoi zürchers: best fondue in Zurich: http://bit.ly/canAIx & best cheese shops to make your own: http://bit.ly/9eMKGX (in German from züritipp)

THE RAMBLING EPICURE Recipe: Geneva specialty, white wine potatoes, to be eaten with sausage.

How to make your own citrus extracts at home! And it's dead easy.

All about roesti and recipe!

Simple recipe for oven-baked "carrot fries".

Soup and sausage on a cold winter's day: RECIPE.

Recipe: cranberry and orange relish. Great with game dishes of all kinds.

Swiss and international food news: loads of links for restaurants, recipes, etc.

Recipe: kohlrabi and dill stew. Perfect for a winter's day.

ChocolateCheese cake & Sablé au chocolat in one #cuisine, Eclair à la pomme, caramel au beurre salé in another...must I really taste all?

Recipe: make your own delicious chocolate macarons with bergamot buttercream filling.

The Minimalist: A Dinner Date With India and Spain.

Great site for interesting and unusual combinations to make easy healthy salads.

New Zealand's quirky breakfasts, recipes included.

Great recipe for a cold winter's day: Mulligatawny Soup.

Swiss news

The Swiss have a food pyramid too!

Find the farmers market closest to you in Geneva.



Latest food fad: the wooly pig. Try it 23 & 24 Feb. in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne.

Statistics on tourist accommodation in December 2009 and year 2009 - 2009 marked by a decline in overnight stays.

Challenging but surprisingly stable Swiss Tourism.

Adapting to a thrifty new world of tourism.

Prodigy Melodie Zhan celebrates Chopin’s 200th birthday at Victoria Hall in Geneva.

Swiss businessman leaves Libya.

Migros supermarkets to offer sound with food labels, for sight-impaired.

GenevaLunch Nestlé pleased with its 2009 results.

Keep up with the Swiss Foodies Swiss and world foodie news by clicking here.

Beer makers face squeeze in demand.

Swiss Diamond frying pans: the safe non-stick frying pan.

Salt war in Switzerland has started as cantons go abroad.

The big Basel carnival bash! Lots of good food on the agenda!

Site that lists restaurants in Switzerland that do home delivery.

Whistler Olympic Park designer Paul Mathews started in Switzerland!

How fresh are your eggs? New website in Switzerland lets you use number on egg to check its freshness.

The Basel carnival, one of the biggest in Europe, started yesterday. Watch this cool video.

Tartare, the all-time Geneva favorite. L'Illustré tells you about tartare in all its forms.

Where to buy food straight from the farm in Switzerland. Just click on your canton.

Lecture/luncheon in Geneva: the state of Britain today.

Opera: Otello in Lausanne.

Combating the Food Crisis is the primary Objective: At the Annual Media Conference held in Bern.

The Rambling Epicure's Mindful Eating Manifesto 2010, my New Year's Resolution, foodie news.

The Ecole-Club Migros now gives some of its cooking classes in English.

Rachid Hamdani's first statements.

International news

UK science professor specializes in science of cooking: molecular and post-molecular cuisine.

How to Order a Beer in 50 Languages!



Image credit:PHOTO: Ben Nilsson/Big Ben Productions. ARTIST: Sakai Hiroyoshi on Urban Spotter.

The first chain restaurant in the US was opened by a Briton in the 19th century. Fancy that!

France's most feared restaurant critic François Simon likes to control what he eats and not let the chef decide.

Interesting: Melissa Clark says NYTimes does not pay for recipe testing for her articles. She has to bear the cost if she wants to. #rsfood

All about New Zealand's quirky breakfasts, with recipes thrown in.

Top 10 list of food songs from Slash Food.

The real difference between restaurant food and food you make at home.

10 of the best English cheeses from the South - Times Online.

Bialetti Mikka Express cappuccino maker, morning's best friend.

The new trend: nanobreweries, producing artisanal beers.

The UK's Top 10 fish and chip shops 2010.

Post-molecular cuisine: 21st-century techno.

Martha Stewart is at it again, with an Everyday Food magazine and an iPhone application to boot.

What's a nanobrewery? A scaled-down microbrewery, often run by a solo entrepreneur.

French fast-food chain Quick causes uproar over its decision to serve only halal beefburgers.

Check out this mind-boggling ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi. Exquisitely beautiful!

In San Francisco, local food is sexy thanks to smart marketing and the fine of art of presentation.

Fascinating blindfold comparison between local & organic foods from Walmart and Whole Foods.

Enterprise Hotel Happy Hour "English Style" 4-03-2010 - Milano - Events.

Walmart's Heritage Agriculture program encourages buying from farms within a day’s drive of one of its warehouses.

Ranting and raving about processed food.

The Omnivore Food Festival will be held in Deauville on Feb. 22 and 23. Read this interesting take.

Michelle Obama asks governors to help anti-obesity initiative.

An Iowa farmer explains the meaning of sustainable agriculture. Full of good info.

The Best Boutique Hotels & Luxury Hotels for jetset nomads.

A fascinating blindfold comparison between local and organic foods from Walmart and Whole Foods.

Food trends

All about the wooly pig, some of world's most juicy and flavorful meat and fat, raised using special Austrian techniques.

Latest food fad: the wooly pig. Try tonight and tomorrow 23 & 24 Feb. in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne.

Interesting combination: dark chocolate, hot peppers and mango.

Food trends in Switzerland and the world.

Nutrition, health, healthy lifestyle

Find Out Your Carbon Footprint and How to Reduce It.

4-yr-olds who regularly eat dinner with family, get enough sleep & watch TV < 2 hrs a day 40% less likely to be obese.

The weight gain diet.

Vinegar sauces, both tasty & healthy & vinegar helps lower blood sugar & lose weight.

Something as simple as sitting down to dinner together as a family can go a long way in helping a child fend off obesity.

The Rambling Epicure: Eating healthy monosaturated fats. How to distinguish good fats from bad ones.

Are US supermarket sales dropping because people are flocking to farmers markets? 8:01 AM Feb 17th

Mindful eating: what The Rambling Epicure has on the agenda for 2010.

A new look at the surprising resilience and growth potential of the human brain - AARP Magazine.

Kids in the Kitchen Let’s Move Healthier choices, exercise = HEALTHIER KIDS. Michelle Obama's campaign.

New seasonal vaccine to contain pandemic H1N1 strain.

The aquaponic garden, spotless and clean. The new rage.

Green leafy foods can be dangerous if not washed properly. Get the scoop here!

Latest news: the importance of getting back around the table.

Chocolate

The perfect marriage of chocolate and beer.

Recipes for dessert lovers, especially good chocolate recipes, by pastry chef Pierre Hermé.

Wine

Learning to love sweet wine.

Soil is not just soil. The Féchy winemakers in canton Vaud get serious!

AMONG THE VINES Swiss women helping build int’l wine group.

Miscellaneous food and related info

Migros supermarkets to offer sound with food labels, for sight-impaired.

Some of my favorite food blogs.

Get the full scoop on how to choose the right kitchen knives for you from a professional chef.

Chocolate show in Nice 5 to 7 March. Both Baboo and easyJet fly there, so it's an easy leap!

Twitter war between New York chefs! Is Twitter gaining power in the world?

Did you know that the Paris Brest turned 100 in January?

Loads of links to follow food trends in Switzerland and abroad, plus restaurant listings.

What can you do with vanilla bean paste (and why use it instead of beans or extract)?

Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web

Swiss Diamond frying pans: the safe non-stick frying pan.

Skiing, snow, lifestyle

Villars-sur-Ollon's Fanny Smith will be skiing in the Skier X Women’s Final at 13:35 today. Don't miss it!

Overview of snow conditions in Swiss ski resorts.

The Vancouver Winter Olympics are first sustainable games; the Olympic Museum in Lausanne has a special exhibit about it.

Beautiful video showing the history of the Winter Olympics.

Best snow sliding in Switzerland!

Achy muscles from all the skiing? Try out exquisite spa packages at Lecrans hotel spa in Crans.

Budget ski deals in European hostels.

Switzerland gets its 5th gold medal!

At least 10 ski stations near Zurich expect 10 cm of new snow overnight!

Klosters ski report: 130 cm snow of very good quality.

Great powdery snow conditions around Sion, 240 cm in Anzère and 210 in Saas-Fee.

Villars-Gryon snow conditions.

Europe's top ski festivals. Go for it!

Check out this mind-boggling ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi. Exquisitely beautiful!

GenevaLunch overview of Swiss skiing conditions this weekend.

Plan your driving carefully on Saturday. Lots of ski vacationers will be heading home.

Swiss women go for the gold in Vancouver.

Swiss curling team beats US in a close match.

Skiing conditions around Bern.

* * * Olympic sports, curling: Swiss men beat USA * *

Ski chalets and apartments for rent in Gstaad.

Engelberg got the biggest dump in Switzerland (again)- 25 cm this time. See you up there today! #freshpow

The Mégève snow forecast for this weekend.

Gstaad snow report and skiing conditions.

Skiing conditions in Verbier this weekend. 1 cm more snow expected.

RT @as3780: Tonight, jungle fever at the Chopard Party at the Palace Gstaad ! By invitation only. 7:51 PM Feb 20th

Ski conditions in 72 stations near Geneva.

Switzerland's Martina Kocher No. 1 in luge final for the moment! 7:44 AM Feb 17th

Nice quotes

Life puts some things on our plate, and you have to slowly eat them, slowly digest them, even when they're not to your gourmet liking.

cyitaiga Quotes - especially positive suggestions - are very strong medicine.

cyitaiga A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.--Bob Hope

cyitaiga The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.--Charles Schwab

cyitaiga "Great and big things can happen when simple and small things come together."--Author (Fahad)

cyitaiga A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.--Richard Branson

Get serious about what you put in your mouth.