Pasta

A three-ship convoy left a port in Cyprus on Saturday with 400 tons of food and other supplies for Gaza as concerns about hunger in the territory soar.

Turkey's spectacular breakthrough as an exporter of durum wheat has spared pasta fans another year of price pain and the country is poised to remain a crucial source of the ingredient prized in Mediterranean cuisine.

The Lenten Basket of lower-priced goods for the Clean Monday holiday and the period of Orthodox Lent will be available as of Wednesday.

The special basket, which will be available until May 4, will include products such as legumes, rice, pasta and frozen vegetables, halva, frozen seafood and Lenten salads.

These days, think twice before you lavishly ladle olive oil onto your pasta, salad or crusty bread.

Olive oil, a daily staple of Mediterranean cuisine and the life of many a salad throughout Europe, is experiencing a staggering rise in price. It's a prime example of how food still outruns overall inflation in the European Union.

The Meloni government has also banned the use of insect flour for the preparation of pasta or pizza

Almost two weeks after the zeroing of the tax rate on seven products (bread, eggs, milk, baby diapers, baby food, feminine hygiene products, and adult diapers) in Cyprus, the island's ministries of Finance and of Commerce are in discussions regarding the next list of products that will have a low or reduced tax rate.

Mlinotest, a leading Slovenian food group, inaugurated a fully renovated dried pasta factory at its home location in Ajdovščina in the west of the country on 10 May. The €7 million investment almost doubles the facility's production capacity.

Bosnian photographer, film director and cinematographer Sahin Sisic documented life in the besieged capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 war, a period that formed the rest of his private and professional life.

One of the most memorable pictures he recalled from that time was his photograph of professor Semsudin Harlac, which was taken in 1992.

With double-digit inflation in Bulgaria, household spending is expected to outpace income in the second quarter of the year. According to the data of the National Statistical Institute, in the period April - June, the total income of a household member is BGN 2,207, which is an increase of 16.5% compared to the same quarter of 2021.

The demand for pasta in Turkey has increased by 20 percent amid the coronavirus pandemic, with Turks consuming some 8 kilos of pasta annually, according to a survey released by the Turkish Pasta Industrialists' Association.

With this rate, Turkey sat in eighth place on the list of countries consuming pasta in 2021.