Starch

A dextrin-rich zero-alcohol beer which has been brewed using conventional methods then processed & prepared into a water-soluble beer powder/granulate

It sounds too good to be true — a plastic bag made from corn starch that breaks down with food waste and leaves no remnant plastic to make its way into the oceans.

These "compostable" light-weight bags for fruit and vegetables are being trialled in two South Australian supermarkets.

Just as I was ready to write another spring article, I woke up to a frosted morning. The blooming flowers in the garden are covered with snow; it is hard to believe that it is April 23. This reminds me of another mid-April snowfall in the most unlikely geography, in Gaziantep. It was the spring of 2011; I was preparing a book on Gaziantep cookery for the Chamber of Commerce.

India has put forth a surprise proposal to increase the ambition of developed and developing nations to tackle the menace of Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs).

Stone-age people ate oats 32,000 years ago, way before farming took root.

What would Lady Macbeth be without something extravagant in which to sweep on stage or Hamlet without a silk doublet and padded hose?