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“I had the hormonal urges,” said Prof Camille Parmesan, a leading climate scientist based in France. “Oh my gosh, it was very strong. But it was: ‘Do I really want to bring a child into this world that we’re creating?’ Even 30 years ago, it was very clear the world was going to hell in a handbasket. I’m 62 now and I’m actually really glad I did not have children.” Parmesan is not alone. An exclusive Guardian survey has found that almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children,...

It's actually a classic combination, if you think about it.Learning how to balance the five elements of flavor — umami/salt, bitter, sweet, sour and spice — is one of the fundamental tenets of both cooking and mixology. For many cocktail lovers on Instagram, seeing a reel of a drinks influencer cheekily sprinkling microplaned parmesan cheese atop an Espresso Martini may seem like pure chaos, but it is, in fact, the opposite: It’s a quintessential example of umami from the cheese balancing the bitterness of coffee. Despite the sticker shock one might feel about this combination, coffee and cheese historically do...

28 months later and some two months before the General Election, a COVID mask mandate for public transportation, homeless shelters and prisons lifted in New York State... In Memphis tonight an alert as a 19-year-old man is shooting people using Facebook Live to show his attacks... At least one dead and two injured in Haiti today as protesters took to the streets... In Canada the suspect in the mass murder stabbing attacks Myles Sanderson was arrested but died of self-inflicted wounds... Politics here in Pennsylvania Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman candidate for US Senate says he will debate Republican challenger...

Hunter Biden has revealed that at the height of his addiction he found himself picking through rugs, looking for and smoking "anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine." In a televised interview with CBS News, Biden told the correspondent Tracy Smith that he found himself "on my hands and knees picking through rugs" and mistook granular substances like Parmesan cheese for cocaine on more than one occasion. "I probably smoked more Parmesan cheese than anyone that you know," Biden said, adding that he once went 13 days without sleeping, "smoking crack and drinking vodka exclusively throughout that entire time." Biden...

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden admitted during a CBS News interview that he smoked Parmesan cheese after mistaking it for crack cocaine during the height of his addiction.

The FDA is cracking down on companies that are lying about selling 100% Parmesan cheese The FDA is warning pasta and pizza lovers that cheese labeled “100 percent Parmesan” are often filled with cheese substitutes—like wood pulp. Yes, you’ve been eating wood, thanks to companies like Castle Cheese, which produced Parmesan cheese containing no actual Parmesan for almost 30 years. The president of the company, which supplied megastores like Target, is scheduled to plead guilty this month to charges that carry a sentence of up to a year in prison and a $100,o00 fine, according to Bloomberg.

Gabe Luddy, fourth-generation cheesemaker at Vella Cheese Co. in Sonoma, makes his Dry Jack the same way his grandfather and great-grandfather did - he rolls and presses curds into large wheels of cheese, then brines and coats the wheels before sliding them onto wooden racks. There they age, from seven months to several years. A U.S. Food & Drug Administration statement which became public last week puts this 83-year-old practice in doubt. In what the agency is calling a clarification, the FDA has declared that the wooden surfaces that cheesemakers around the world age cheeses on "cannot be adequately cleaned...

Inspired by a conversation with my best friend I wish to talk about cheese. Yummy, yummy cheese (for those of us not lactose intolerant)! What are your favorite cheeses? What is your favorite recipe with cheese. This thread is all cheese, all the time.

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October 5 Today is the Anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus! The Flying Circus debuted this day, 35 years ago, on television at 10:50 PM on BBC-1. The world was never the same. (October 5, 1969)

European Union Sues Germany in Dispute Over Parmesan Makers July 9 (Bloomberg) -- The European Commission filed a lawsuit against Germany at Europe's highest court for failing to crack down on producers of knock-off Parmesan cheese. Parmesan, like France's Champagne and Medoc wines, is a protected name under European Union rules. To be called Parmesan, or Parmigiano Reggiano in Italian, the cheese must be made in a defined region in Northern Italy. Each producer is certified. Translations of the cheese's name are also protected. ``Germany does not give full protection to this protected designation of origin,'' the Brussels-based commission said...

European Union Wants Parmesan, Gorgonzola If the World Trade Organization grants a request by the European Union, Wisconsin could lose some famous cheese names. No more mozzarella. No more Parmesan or Gorgonzola. Wisconsin state Rep. Mark Green said the proposal would impose geographic copyrights on the names of foods, which share the name of the region or city in which they originate. The restrictions could go beyond cheese. The name Dijon mustard, for example, could only be used for cheese made in that particular region of France. What's the chance of the trade organization passing such a request at next...