Food and drink

Olympic Brewery, the Greek subsidiary of the Carlsberg Group, is planning for investments of 20 million euros in 2023-24.

Tereha Davis, whose family has fished for conch from waters around the Bahamas for five generations, remembers when she could walk into the water from the beach and pick up the marine snails from the seabed.

Grain producers and other agricultural producers once again organized a protest near the "Danube Bridge" checkpoint near Ruse and blocked the traffic in the area of the border crossing with agricultural machines, reports BTA.

Hiša Franko, the restaurant run by the Slovenian Michelin-starred chef Ana Roš in the Soča Valley, has been picked as one of Europe's best gourmet getaways by the National Geographic.

On 7 April, the UK-based magazine National Geographic Traveller released the list of 23 iconic European restaurants that it says merit saving up and planning a short trip around them.

Greek authorities and local dairy industries are up against yet another case of feta imitation and the unlicensed use of the name of Greece's most popular cheese.

March 22 marked World Water Day and the launch of the 2023 UN Water Conference in New York. Last week also marked one of the most important debates for the Greek legislature and the Mitsotakis government regarding transforming Greece's water management.

In the 2020 corporate and social responsibility report of France's Lactalis, the world's leading dairy company, there is a section titled "Authentic Products and Heritage." In this section, the company states, among other things, that it is "committed to maintaining product diversity through the protection of know-how, especially Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products."

Longtime Starbucks leader Howard Schultz defended the coffee chain's confrontational approach to unionization on March 29, while insisting it had not violated U.S. labor law in countering the campaign.

The hearing, which got contentious at some points, was convened by progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, focusing on what the independent from Vermont called "illegal union busting."

Food scientists on March 28 unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods.

The glistening meatball was displayed under a glass bell jar by Australian-based cultivated meat firm Vow at the NEMO science museum in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

Filip Flisar, the Slovenian 2015 world ski cross champion, has often described his strong legs as his biggest asset, lovingly calling them Pohorje hams. Now that his sporting career is over, he has ventured into business to sell real ham from the Pohorje hills.

Flisar launched his new brand, called Pohorska Šunka or Pohorje Ham, at a wine shop in Maribor on 26 March.