Pizza Hut, the world’s largest pizza franchise, is launching the first stage in a menu-wide transition to pizzas made entirely from natural ingredients in the US. The new pizzas will provide their customers the opportunity to have pizza free from artificial preservatives, colours and flavours, they advised.

Have you heard about the newest health food product? While they eat horse meat in Europe, feed the meat to dogs in Australia and ride the living animals in the USA, in Japan they recommend the placenta as the healthiest health food.

The Organic Food Chain Pty Ltd has notified us that our natural preservative, Herbal-Active™ is approved for use in organic food products. Its sister formulation, HerBev™ will have the same status for pasteurized beverages.

This article is not new but as I have had a number of requests for copies, I’ve reprinted it here. It also adds to my recent segment on The Food Investigators on SBS.

Spices have been the basis of the economic development of many countries for centuries and are at the core of the growth of civilisation. While there is some evidence of spices being used by African and European hunter-gatherers through pre-history, clear records show that the Ancient Egyptians used spices in food, cosmetics and medicines since 5000BC.

My new powdered formulation (on Acacia gum or potato starch) is now showing extremely good results used in hummus. One manufacturer in the USA is happy with the 9 weeks chilled shelf life which Chef Wayne Philen …..

I love to promote the products of my manufacturing customers and now I have another one which really excites me: Kakadu Juice. This became such a great product that I ended up becoming part of the company (Kakadu International Pty Ltd).

Let me tell you about it.

Politicians are talking down the economy and taking us into a recession whether it’s inevitable or not. It’s a case of the personal development cliche that if you think you can or you think you can’t; you’re right.

Restaurants are suffering more than most since they rely on business lunches, social dinners and discretionary income spends and each of these disappear as the economy gets more uncertain.

So what would you do if you were running a restaurant?

I am really pleased that the range of authentic Australian breads marketed under the Noble Rise brand are doing well in the supermarkets.

Two variants, Outback and Mountain breads are both mixed grain loaves with my favorite ingredients. I also happen to like the videos produced to promote the range. They call the series BlandAid and the gist of it is that we can’t afford to be bland in this world.

This is a dispatch from Frank, a friend and colleague from Yuedemu Mining Company, an Aboriginal owned exploration and development operation on the edge of the Tanami Desert.

You might ask why I’m blogging about this but unless we appreciate traditional Aboriginal culture, respect their ways and give them the freedom to live as they see fit and also value the food, medicine and ecological resources they maintained over 50,000 years or more, how can we object to others ignoring basic Human Rights in West Africa, North Korea, the Gaza Strip or Iraq?

I use Twitter (and Twuffer – a scheduling application for Twitter) and Facebook just because I have to keep up with the trends and stay in touch these days. Doesn’t everyone?