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gastronomyfiles:

Thai Pancake (by The Tea God)

eatcleanmakechanges:

living-the-healthy-life:

ksmgilbreath:

Strawberries filled with greek yogurt, and topped with almonds. Omg. Im dying. Looks so good. I need to go buy all of this STAT

this looks amazing

trying this!!!!!

prettybalanced:

Pasta with Arugula Pesto, Cherry Tomatoes and Garlic Scapes

mehreenkasana:

kneelbeforetigers:

roadsandkingdoms:

When McDonald’s and KFC first opened up in Pakistan in the 1990s, there were manic scenes. Snaking queues, traffic jams for miles and kids running amok in play areas. Burger joints had existed before, but the fried chicken and ‘would you like fries with that’ phenomena swept through the country, paving the way for spinoffs in every neighbourhood and small town.

But long before the golden arches began gleaming through Pakistan, there was always the poor man’s burger: the bun kebab.

The bun kebab builds on the familiar burger formula: it’s a patty in a bun. But its flavors stretch far beyond the western world, combining Pakistanis’ love for spices and fried food, all in one go.

More from Saba Imtiaz’s Karachi dispatch: bun kebabs on Roads & Kingdoms

rly i dont know why indians never came up with this

One of the things I love about my motherland Pakistan. And it’s saddening because many of these bun kebab sellers lost a massive number of customers - and consequently income - because of how McDonald’s, KFC, Hardees and other ‘Western’ fast food restaurants mushroomed all over the place. It also became a symbol of looking ‘modern’ when you’d go to these joints. The bun kebab wala was seen as backwards and lowly. But even now - and I suppose this is the beauty of it - people still know that there is nothing more delicious than a bun kebab burger compared to those (un)Happy Meals, over-fried curly fries and expensive deals.

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Hunger level 9000!

EU supermarkets blamed for Kenya food waste

More than 15 percent of food grown in Kenya is discarded due to the “cosmetic standards” of supermarkets in Europe.

Nairobi, Kenya - On a farm a few hundred kilometres from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Samson Kariuki* is engaging in a strange ritual: chopping large chunks off his green beans. Every green bean grown on his farm is cut down by around a third before it goes to market, and the remainder tossed on a heap. The reason? Beans are bendy and the cellophane packets in UK supermarkets are short and straight.

In a country where 3 million people are dependent on food aid, he wastes 40 tonnes of edible green beans, broccoli, sugar snaps, and runner beans every week, primarily because they are the wrong size, shape or colour. This is enough to provide meals for over 250,000 people, and equates to 40 percent of his entire crop.

Kariuki is supplying one well-known British retailer, but campaigner Tristram Stuart, who spent the past week visiting Kenyan farmers in the run up to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) dinner to highlight the problem of food waste, says he knows of many others in similar situations.

“The unfair and unnecessary practices of European supermarkets are forcing Kenyan farmers to waste colossal amounts of food while millions of people go hungry,” he told Al Jazeera in Nairobi. “Sometimes whole consignments are rejected because they contain produce with slight cosmetic defects.”

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