Abu Dhabi: Dubai announced the launch of food delivery robots as part of a drive to promote smart, driverless transportation to achieve zero emissions targets.
The Roads Transport Authority (RTA) in partnership with Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority (DIEZ) on Wednesday, announced the pilot launch of autonomous food delivery robots, also known as “talabots”, in Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.
Three delivery robots will serve the residents of Cedre Villas, a gated community in Dubai Silicon Oasis.
The robots will travel within a radius of three kilometers from the starting point of the Cedre shopping center to ensure a quick delivery time of 15 minutes.
The robots come without any facial recognition detection and protect people’s identities by blurring the visibility of their faces.
With the Talabat integrated app, customers can also track the robot’s journey and receive notifications upon arrival.
This initiative aims to revolutionize sustainable last-mile delivery in the UAE by encouraging the use of zero-emission delivery methods and using advanced technologies to increase efficiency.
These efforts are in line with Dubai’s goal of making 25 per cent of all transportation journeys smart and driverless by 2030.
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11-26 February Beat the winter blues with a trip to one of France’s sunniest towns: Menton is famous for its lemons which thrive in the microclimate in this corner of the Côte d’Azur. For two weeks each February, the town celebrates all things citrus with huge sculptures made from 150 tonnes of oranges and lemons, which get sold off to locals for jam-making at the end. This year’s theme is rock and opera and there are walking tours of the groves, locals’ food stands, special menus in the restaurants, and visits to the town’s many botanic gardens. But the highlight is the carnivals that see huge floats adorned with fruit, as well as dancing and music troupes from around the world. fete-du-citron.com
Foire au Boudin, Mortagne-au-Perche, Normandy
16-19 March
Black pudding is a local speciality of Mortagne-au-Perche. Photograph: M. Le Boucher
This fascinating fair in the depths of the Normandy countryside is for those with a penchant for charcuterie. The Foire au Boudin in Mortagne-au-Perche sees artisans from all over Europe gather to celebrate the most sophisticated of sausages, from black pudding, for which the town is known, to white pudding, tripe and charcuterie. The dozens of food producers exhibiting also showcase France’s best cheeses, wines, ciders and spirits. There are chef and bakery demonstrations, too, but its most curious spectacle is the competition that sees locals race to eat metre-long lengths of black pudding, to the cheers of the crowds. foire-au-boudin.fr
Fête de l’Omelette Géante, Bessières, Occitanie
8-10 April
It’s said that Bessières’ giant omelette festival was inspired by Napoleon’s visit to an auberge near the town, which served him such a delicious omelette that he insisted the chef cook a giant one for his army. There may not be much truth to the story, but the occasion has become a legend in itself. The main event, on Easter Monday (10 April), kicks off with volunteers – many of whom belong to the Global Brotherhood of the Knights of the Giant Omelette – cracking 15,000 eggs; these are then seasoned, whisked and cooked in a four-metre frying pan set over a bonfire. The surprisingly delicious omelette, which is more like scrambled eggs once it’s been stirred, is then served for free to the 2,000 festival-goers and celebrates the global community that sees Bessières linked to six other giant omelette festivals around world, from Belgium to New Caledonia. omelettegeante.fr
Festival International de la Soupe, Lille
1 May, 3pm-10pm
The Wazemmes quartier in Lille is a melting pot of cultures all year round, with its market that offers myriad cuisines from around the world – from Latin-American to Lebanese. Each spring, the neighbourhood comes together to celebrate its multiculturalism with the Festival International de la Soupe. This vibrant festival takes place in the market square and sees some 60 different stalls offering soups from around the world, as well as recipes created by families, charity associations and other groups. The best one wins the star prize, La Louche d’Or – the golden ladle. There is beer by the barrel-load as well as a host of different international music groups playing everything from Indian drums to big band brass. lalouchedor.com
Féria du Melon, Cavaillon, Provence
Mid-July (dates TBC)
Cavaillon melon Photograph: Antoni Bastien/Alamy
Summer in the Luberon sees an abundance of delicious fruit arrive at the markets, but the one with most fanfare is the Cavaillon melon. This variety of the Charentais melon has been cultivated in the town since the 15th century and the Féria du Melon sees visitors treated to tastings and tours of the producers’ farms, exhibitions, competitions and a carnival. Meanwhile, the local guild – The Brotherhood of Knights of the Order of the Cavaillon Melon – get on with tasting the sunshine-infused fruit to find the winning producer. In addition to eating melons, a key highlight of the weekend is the running of 100 Camargue horses around the streets. avignon-et-provence.com
Roscoff Onion festival, Brittany
Mid-August (date TBC)
Breton culture is celebrated at the Roscoff Onion festival. Photograph: Alexandre Lamoureux
The pretty harbour town of Roscoff on Brittany’s north coast boasts a famous export: onions. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the so-called “Onion Johnnies” would sell their famous alliums door-to-door from the handlebars of their bicycles throughout Britain, giving rise to the stereotypical onion-clad image of the Frenchman. Though Brexit put an end to the dwindling tradition, the delicate pink onions are still a treasured product in the area and the lively mid-August festival sees them celebrated in many forms. There are onion-string-plaiting competitions, visits to farms, Breton music and dancing, and huge vats of confit onions are cooked and served on the local speciality galette-saucisse, a sausage wrapped in a buckwheat pancake. oignonderoscoff.fr
La Fête de la Figue, Solliès-Pont, Provence
25-27 August
The Var’s Gapeau Valley is famous for its fig orchards. Photograph: Hemis/Alamy
The town of Solliès-Pont in the Var’s Gapeau Valley is famous for its fig orchards that produce about 2,500 tons of the fruit each year and 75% of France’s entire fig harvest. The trees thrive in the abundant sunshine and water from the River Gapeau, while being sheltered by the 700-metre Mont Coudon. The harvest kicks off each year in August, when the town throws a huge party for its Fête de la Figue. By day, visitors can browse the many stalls selling everything from fresh figs, mostly the Violette variety, as well as tarts, jams, liqueurs and myriad Provençale specialities. There are cooking demonstrations and fig trails through the valley, but the main event is the opening night dinner in the town’s central plane-tree-shaded square. Each one of the four courses features figs in some way, while an energetic covers band plays and locals dance in the square long into the night. ville-sollies-pont.fr
Fête de la Chataigne, Collobrières, Provence
15, 22 and 29 October
Just an hour inland from Saint-Tropez, the little town of Collobrières is set in the Massif des Maures’ cork oak and chestnut forests and is altogether more rustic than the Côte d’Azur. Famous for its chestnuts, the town celebrates its harvest for three Sundays in October, with parades, concerts and a market selling a wide variety of chestnut products from sweet chestnut paste to liqueur. Several producers roast chestnuts over braziers, leading to a delicious aroma filling the air. Local restaurants set out their tables on the street under the yellowing plane trees, and serve the traditional daube stew made with chestnuts and wild boar – it’s one way of controlling their damaging population. visitvar.fr/en/
Fête du Piment, Basque Country, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
28-29 October
Chillies adorn a house in Espelette. Photograph: Pauline Cutler/Alamy
The French aren’t fond of spicy chilli peppers, but they do have a penchant for the gentler heat that comes with piment d’Espelette. They were first brought to the area from Mexico in the 16th century, and became popular because they flourished in the warm yet humid climate of the foothills of the Pyrenees, half an hour inland from Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The annual Fête du Piment marks the end of the harvest season and is a lively mix of concerts, marching bands and Basque dancing, as well as tastings, cookery workshops, drinks parties and banquets, with locals all dressed in the Basque country’s traditional outfits, all in red and white. espelette-paysbasque.com
Turkey soup being prepared in Licques, near Calais. Photograph: Liz Garnett/Alamy
Fête de la Dinde, Licques, Hauts -de -France
Mid-December; dates TBC
The tiny town of Licques, just half an hour inland from Calais, has been famous for its poultry since the local abbey’s monks began rearing turkeys in the 17th century. Each year, the locals and its 80 poultry producers (of a population of just over 1,600) celebrate this history. The main event kicks off with la potée, the hotpot – a huge cauldron warmed by a fire pit contains tasty, warming turkey soup which is served to attendees. Local producers bring their live turkeys to show off and which are herded by children up the street, followed by a parade of brotherhoods (guilds) representing other regional food specialities, with everyone stopping for mulled wine and spicy chicken wings from stalls along the way. The ensemble gathers in a huge marquee, where the festival feast of roast turkey and chips is served. There’s a food market at which to stock up for the festive period, offering everything from poultry to cheese and wine. licques-volailles.fr
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There was bipartisan agreement on many of the main drivers of food inflation. But that agreement evaporated when we asked what Congress can do to slow it.
The lawmakers’ responses, below, have been edited for length and clarity.
POLITICO: What’s driving up costs for you on your farm?
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the self-proclaimed “only working farmer” in the Senate, who frequently tweets updates while driving a combine in his wheat fields:
“Repairs. The cost of diesel fuel, in particular. The cost of tires. I mean, repairs, supplies and energy. Repairs would be mostly manpower, and then diesel’s diesel.”
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.),a rice farmer in Northern California and frequent critic of the Biden administration:
“If you want to make my cost of producing an acre of rice come back into line with just a few years ago … then my diesel doesn’t need to cost me five-and-a-half dollars a gallon versus two-and-a-half. Then my fertilizer doesn’t need to be tripled, some of the pesticides I have to use for controlling weeds and stuff. Those have gone up dramatically.”
Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.), a former Tennessee agriculture commissioner who raises beef cows on his farm:
“Farmers, just like everyday consumers, we buy lots of fuel to do what we do, and the prices for that have gone up dramatically. Like any auto buyer, it’s hard to get tractors because of the supply chain shortages there, and there are more expensive parts.”
Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif),an almond farmer who represents Fresno, a critical agriculture district in California’s Central Valley:
“The cost of energy. Fertilizer. I grow almonds and the cost of bees has increased significantly over the last five years. And the cost of subcontracting, I’m not large enough to have my own harvesting equipment for my almonds so I hired that out … that has increased significantly over the past several years.”
POLITICO: As a farmer, what do you think it would take to fix food inflation?
Tester:“More competition in the marketplace. It’s as simple as that. So what the administration has done with meat processing is a step in the right direction. Now they needed to pass my [cattle market] bills to deal with the spot pricing and special investigator. Capitalism works when there’s competition. It doesn’t when there’s consolidation.”
LaMalfa: “[Energy] is one. Also enforcing trade. [Former President Donald] Trump got a deal cut with China back then. … Our ag products are suffering greatly because [China] is not meeting the goals that were set for the ag portion of it.
I spoke to the president right after the end of the [State of the Union] speech, and I talked to him about water, California water. We need his Bureau of Reclamation and the other federal regulatory entities to cut us some slack.”
Rose: “The biggest thing contributing to inflation right now is the runaway government spending that the Biden administration has engaged in.
But then you also have just an onslaught of regulation that stands in the way of current production … the types of policies that have interfered with farmers being able to get their hands on badly needed pesticides.”
Costa: “We have a problem in this country that we’ve not been able to address successfully, and that’s the amount of food waste. … Whether it’s in our schools or other products, one of the things I want to look at this farm bill reauthorization is how we can do a better job with those impacts.
Then if it’s not extreme droughts or floods, I don’t know what category you put the avian flu. Clearly these are things we’re looking at better ability to provide in the farm bill reauthorization, [where] we plan for a lot of invasive pests.”
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New Delhi: Aromas of golden jalebis dipped in sugar syrup, tikkis frying in oil and kung pao chicken being tossed in a wok waft through Talkatora Stadium here, drawing food lovers to their favourite cuisines at the G20 International Food Festival.
“This is where the scent of chhole bhature is coming from,” 13-year-old Himanshu tells his mother after meticulously searching the venue for his favourite dish.
The two-day G20 International Food Festival, themed “Taste the World”, was inaugurated by Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri at 11:30 am on Saturday.
Four G20 countries — China, Turkey, Japan and Mexico — are participating in the festival.
Also on offer are cuisines from 14 Indian states and union territories — Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Delhi, Bihar, Punjab, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Manipur and Meghalaya.
More than 11 hotels, including Taj Palace, Taj Mahal, The Connaught, Taj Ambassadors, Le Meridian, ITC Maurya and The Park, are offering their signature food items.
A large crowd was seen at the Tihar jail bakery stall where a range of products from biscuits to savoury snacks and jalebis kept the visitors coming.
“All these products are prepared by prisoners of Tihar jail and that is why there is so much excitement among the people. People are coming back for jalebis again and again,” said Ashutosh, one of the workers at the stall.
For 45-year-old Vikram, the food festival gave him a chance to try the food from Hotel Taj Palace.
“This is the first time I am having food from Hotel Taj Palace. It is a little more expensive than other stalls but it is a good experience,” he said.
At the Japanese stall, teriyaki chicken was the speciality of the day.
“It is fried chicken which is served with special sauces. Sushi with teriyaki chicken filling is also on the menu. Another dish being served today is dashimaki tamago (Japanese rolled omelette),” said Amrit, the stall manager.
A chef is busy rustling up authentic Chinese delicacies at a stall set up by a Saket-based restaurant owned by an Indian man and his Chinese wife.
“My wife is Chinese and I am Indian. We were approached by the Chinese embassy and our chef is also Chinese. We are offering our specialities here like kung pao chicken and fried long beans,” said Abhishek, the restaurant owner.
The Ministry of Agriculture has also set up stalls at the festival on the theme of ‘International Year of Millets’.
Several small businesses that set up stalls at the festival were elated with the good response to their millet products.
“We started this company two years back but suddenly our business is picking up. It is because of the promotion of millets by PM Modi. People are learning about the benefits of millets and this is helping us,” said Manisha Srivastava, whose company sells snacks made from different kinds of millets.
Hundreds of people were seen relishing their favourite delicacies at the food festival.
The public has responded well and helped make this food festival a success, said an official of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), which has organised the event.
Palghar: Nine undertrials lodged in a police lockup in Maharashtra’s Palghar district were rushed to hospital due to suspected food poisoning, an official said on Wednesday.
The incident took place on Tuesday after the undertrials were given lunch at the lockup in Nallasopara police station at around 2 pm, he said.
After consuming food, two of them complained of nausea, uneasiness and vomiting. Later, the other undertrials also complained of similar issues, Nallasopara police station’s senior inspector Vilas Supe said.
The undertrials were rushed to the civic hospital at Sopara, he said.
All of them are out of danger and undergoing treatment, he said.
The samples of the food, provided from a government mess, have been sent to a laboratory for analysis, the official said.
Dakshina Kannada: Karnataka Police on Tuesday lodged an FIR against the college management in Dakshina Kannada district in connection with the food poisoning case in which 231 students fell seriously sick after meals at the hostel mess.
District Education Officer Dr Jagadish had lodged a complaint with Kadri police station against the management of the City College of Nursing , alleging that suspicious, poisonous food is being given to girl hostel inmates.
It also mentions that the management has not maintained hygiene during preparation of food and while admitting the students to hospitals, the management had kept the district administration in the dark.
The District Education Officer, Principal, and district officers jointly inspected the kitchen of the hostel. The samples of food items, drinking water, stored meat and other articles have been sent to the lab. The direction had been given not to prepare any food in the kitchen.
Following the incident, the meeting of parents and college management had been organised where parents vented their ire on non-availability of hygienic food, and a few parents maintain that they don’t know in which hospital their kids are being treated. A holiday has been declared in the college till future directions.
Dakshina Kannada District Commissioner M.R. Ravikumar stated on Tuesday that 116 students are still being treated at the various hospitals, and their stools, and blood samples have been sent for testing.
The incident had taken place at around 9 p.m. on Monday. Sources say the students fell sick after eating ghee rice and chicken. While 115 students have returned to the hostel after the treatment, a special medical team, with an ambulance, had been sent to the hostel to monitor their condition.
Hyderabad: The three-day twin expos featuring Dairy and food products, processing & packaging held at Hitex in Madhapur on Sunday shed light on the diary industry in the state.
Telangana home minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali inaugurated the expo and stated that the industry had a bright future.
The expo was organised by Media Day Marketing in support of the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI), Ministry of Agriculture Govt of India, Government of Telangana and MSMEs.
Around 105 exhibitors were featured in this expo including Coffee Board of India, Godrej, Creamline Jersey Products, Dodla Dairy etc showcasing their products and services. Over 7500 visitors showed up at the expo.
Mr Soma Bharath Kumar, Chairman of Telangana State Dairy Development Cooperative Federation (TSDDCF) said at the opening of the expo, “Hyderabad needs one crore litre of milk every day but it is able to provide only 60 to 70 lakh litres.”
He also shared its expansion plans that they were planning to add 2000 more outlets across Telangana. Currently, Vijaya dairy has 1000 outlets.
“Similarly it is also expanding its products portfolio. Currently, we have 27 products and we will be adding 100 more products such as Milk Shake, Coffee, Tea, Flavoured Milk, Ice Cream, Kulfi, Cookies, Health Bars etc and others,” he added.
The expos, which are an annual event, will be held next year from March 8 to 10, 2024.
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