GenevaLunch » food http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Swiss customs revenues get boost from high Swiss franc http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:40:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66411 GenevaLunch.com BASEL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Lower prices across the border in France thanks to the high Swiss franc don’t always mean the Swiss lose out: the Swiss Customs Office says that in 2011 its revenues rose thanks to import declarations, from CHF28.7 million to CHF39.8m. Imported border goods remain nevertheless a small part of customs [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/08/swiss-customs-revenues-get-boost-from-high-swiss-franc/feed/ 0 Best deals in town: insurance, finance, food and more http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:19:21 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=66141 GenevaLunch.com Comparis.ch is a popular Swiss internet comparison service and it’s available in English. Their latest: weekly food, wine and beer deals at major supermarkets are listed in the Special offers section. A free Smartshopper application is available for your smartphone. Comparis has long been known for its comparisons of insurances rates for health, home, cars [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/02/best-deals-in-town-insurance-finance-food-and-more/feed/ 0 Bern warns of French Camembert salmonella threat http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/bern-warns-of-french-camembert-salmonella-threat/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/bern-warns-of-french-camembert-salmonella-threat/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:52:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64942 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss federal government has issued a salmonella warning for a Camembert cheese, cautioning consumers to check if it corresponds to the following: Le Camembert Fermier « Ferme de Jouvence » (lot 11309VC; DLUO 14.01.2012): 275g with sell-by dates of 14.01.2012. The cheese was immediately pulled off shelves once French authorities were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/04/bern-warns-of-french-camembert-salmonella-threat/feed/ 0 Swiss spend more on food than on taxes http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:08:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63575 GenevaLunch.com Insurance was 8.4% in 2009, but cost has risen for past 2 years BERN, SWITZERLAND – Average disposable household income in Switzerland in 2009 was CHF6,650 a month, with 13 percent of that, CHF1,185, going for food, beverages and restaurants. Housing and energy together made up the largest household budget item, CHF1,495 a month. Transport [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/swiss-spend-more-on-food-than-on-taxes/feed/ 0 The fish Swiss customs didn’t let you eat, whew! http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/the-fish-swiss-customs-didnt-let-you-eat-whew/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/the-fish-swiss-customs-didnt-let-you-eat-whew/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:44:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63059 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss customs officials in Geneva stepped up their checks of food items entering the country in May, and say they have uncovered serious problems in the transport of a number of food items. Between June and September they seized a large number of shipments of supposedly fresh foods that were not kept [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/01/the-fish-swiss-customs-didnt-let-you-eat-whew/feed/ 0 Swiss chocolatiers and chocolate show http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/swiss-chocolatiers-and-chocolate-show/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/swiss-chocolatiers-and-chocolate-show/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:07:51 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62188 GenevaLunch.com Swiss chocolate-makers will be out in force in Geneva, with some 30 chocolate-makers, including some from elsewhere in Europe. Lise Luka Director, says “The International Exhibition of Chocolate and Chocolatiers is the first ever held in Switzerland and the only one. It is a great opportunity for Geneva to be elevated as a centre of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/swiss-chocolatiers-and-chocolate-show/feed/ 0 Red Cross starts to feed Somalis, with Al-Shabaab’s agreement http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/red-cross-starts-to-feed-somalis-with-al-shabaabs-agreement/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/red-cross-starts-to-feed-somalis-with-al-shabaabs-agreement/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:54:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62131 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ICRC (International Red Cross) said Wednesday 5 October that it has started to distribute food to help 1.1 million Somalis living in the areas hardest hit by war, in southern and central Somalia. Enough beans, rice and oil to survive for one month are already being given to 72,000 people in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/red-cross-starts-to-feed-somalis-with-al-shabaabs-agreement/feed/ 0 Swiss non-GM soybeans gets boost from researchers http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/swiss-non-gm-soybeans-gets-boost-from-researchers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/swiss-non-gm-soybeans-gets-boost-from-researchers/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:49:13 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62099 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s fight to maintain non-genetically modified (GM) crops in the face of a larger pool of world GM seeds has been given a boost by researchers at the ACW (Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil) federal research station. Two new hybrid seed varieties, Amandine and Falbala, are ready for market, the result of 15 years of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/05/swiss-non-gm-soybeans-gets-boost-from-researchers/feed/ 0 Check yourself out, soon coming to a supermarket near you http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/check-yourself-out-soon-coming-to-a-supermarket-near-you/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/check-yourself-out-soon-coming-to-a-supermarket-near-you/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:31:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61217 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Migros, Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain, is about to start trialling two new shopping systems, both designed to save time in checkout lines, says the store. The first will allow shoppers to scan a limited number of large items themselves. The second will allow them to check themselves out by scanning a limited [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/05/check-yourself-out-soon-coming-to-a-supermarket-near-you/feed/ 2 Switzerland hosts 1st int’l meeting on medicinal mountain plants http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/29/switzerland-hosts-1st-intl-meeting-on-medicinal-mountain-plants/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/29/switzerland-hosts-1st-intl-meeting-on-medicinal-mountain-plants/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:19:34 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59306 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland is host to the world’s first symposium on medicinal and herbal mountain plants, in Saas Fee, canton Valais, starting 5 July. Experts from around the world will be presenting 120 papers on the value-added potential of alpine plants for cosmetics, food and medicine, part of the exploration of the possible role [...]

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