Family Name : VALERIANACEAE
Botanical Name : VALERIANA WALLICHII
Common Name : VALERIAN, INDIAN VALERIAN, VALERIAN JATAMANSI, TAGGAR
Part Used : ROOTS
Habitat : Temperate zone of North western […]

The restaurant industry has fallen, and it can’t get up. To add insult: The worst may be yet to come.Same-store sales are sliding. Commodity prices are climbing. Units are closing. Customers are dwindling. Some of the top names in all ends of dining are in pain, from Starbucks to Applebee’s to The Cheesecake Factory. “Whether […]

A videotape of crippled “downer” cows being mistreated at a California plant prompted outrage from animal welfare groups, a rebuke from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the plant’s closure, criminal charges, a lawsuit, congressional hearings and the largest meat recall in U.S. history.But the video also has focused new light on a practice that some […]

Tex-Mex food may conjure images of sour cream or melted cheese dolloped on top of a bowl of tortilla chips, but real Mexican food is dominated not by fat-fuelled Western interpretations of the Central American diet but by the highly nutritious cereal maize, which is made into true tortillas (thin griddle cakes) and dumplings.
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While millions of Haitians go hungry, containers full of food are stacking up in the nation’s ports because of government red tape — leaving tons of beans, rice and other staples to rot under a sweltering sun or be devoured by vermin.A government attempt to clean up a corrupt port system that has helped make […]