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Healthy Corner Store
Going to the corner shop for sweets is a special treat for most children. But in Philadelphia, the poorest and most obese city in the US, researchers found that half the kids in low-income...
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Supermarket sweep
Pasta from here, plums from there. Online shopping is all very well, but what if an essential item has sold out? Or you’re after something more specific than the store has in stock? Or – heaven forbid...
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The boring brief
Question: How did student Tom Hubbard win such a unique and prestigious trophy? A hand-crafted, hand-painted masterpiece, topped with a golden microchip and worthy of any bookcase or designer’s desk?...
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Market on a mission
Supermarkets have gone through some fairly radical rethinking in recent years. You only have to look at the success of Morrisons’ Market Street to see how things are changing. It won’t be long before...
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Disloyalty cards
There’s always been something quite appealing about the idea of walking into your local coffee shop and hearing the words “Just your usual?” But now, Washington D.C.’s Peregrine Espresso coffee shop is...
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Bottoms up, down under
We’ve seen Absolut New Orleans, Absolut LA, Absolut Boston, Brooklyn and Miami. We’ve even seen Absolut London, Moscow and Polakom. But now the Swedish-based vodka business has taken its first trip to...
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Tiny tasters
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZlHSy5HDM Bite sized is making big tasty waves across the US right now, with Oreo sending out pint-sized surprises to the fifty smallest towns across the...
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Call the local shots
Global recipe; local taste. That’s the formula behind Pernod Ricard’s brand ‘Our/Vodka’. And it seems to be working a dream. After launching in Berlin, Our/Vodka has just found its way to American...
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Equal steaks
What happens to the feathers of chickens killed to make nuggets? To the wool of lambs slaughtered for Sunday roasts? Or the hide of cows used for meat? Hang on, we can answer that last one. At least,...
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Search beyond the ordinary
In London and looking for a boozer for Saturday night? Forget Google, the search engine you need is www.solsearch.com. Created by Sol Beer, it claims to ‘dig deeper’ than the usual search engines by...
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