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Celebrity chef brings his culinary mastery to DubaiDubai is set to experience the finest in casual dining as British chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay plans to open his second restaurant concept at the Atlantis, The Palm this fall. Ramsay first entered the emirate’s gastronomic More… |
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Bahrain bakeries urged to reduce salt in breadBakeries in Bahrain are being urged to reduce the salt content of their bread. Health authorities are planning to step up efforts to cut out sodium from recipes, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. More… |
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Tunisia to trim fuel, sugar, bread subsidiesTunisia will raise subsidised petrol prices by 6.3 percent in the coming days and also decrease subsidies for bread, sugar and other basic materials to trim its worsening budget deficit, the government said. Subsidies are a sensit More… |
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Egypt smart-card system cuts wheat consumptionEgypt's supplies minister said on Saturday a smart-card system for bread distribution rolled out in one Egyptian city had reduced wheat consumption by 30 percent, easing the strain of subsidies on the government's budget and foreign rese More… |
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Iraq offers opening to French wheat exportsIraq has agreed to consider importing wheat from France, an Iraqi official and French exporters said, a potential breakthrough for the European Union's top wheat exporter in prized Middle Eastern import markets. Iraq is one of More… |
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Egypt plans to ration subsidised breadEgypt plans to start rationing subsidised bread, a minister said on Tuesday, restricting supplies of cheap loaves upon which many Egyptians depend as the cash-strapped state tries to curb spending. More… |
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Bread a culprit in Americans eating too much saltNine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. Forty-four percent of salt c More… |
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Egypt inches towards food subsidy reformEgypt, once the breadbasket of the ancient Roman empire and now the world's biggest wheat importer, is paying a hefty price to keep its citizens fed with cheap loaves and other foodstuffs, said experts. The $5.5 billion which it spends More… |
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Egypt's wheat bill up, but bread riots unlikelyEgypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, faces a higher bill for bread subsidies in the next year but has adequate financial resources and stocks to avoid any rerun of the violent protests of 2008. Egypt raced to redo orders after drough More… |
In Egypt, queues get longer for a loaf of 'free' breadAbdel Nabi Salim's main job in life is queuing for bread. The greying 65-year-old retired administrator stands under Egypt's glaring noon sun, waiting in a queue that snakes out to the street to buy 20 loaves of steaming subsidised pocket bread fr More… |
