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In previous months prices have started to jump like crazy. In this very moment I’m not concerned about a prices of the traffic, nor the electricity, but the price of the food, and especially the price of the meat.

Vegetarian people can say whatever they want, but I LOVE meat. I need it, it gives me a lot more energy then vegetables and it’s so, so tasty. Meat prices already began to rise before the drought really settled in this summer. The price tag on sirloin steak jumped more than 15% from June 2011 to June 2012, according to the BLS. The price of ground beef rose more than 8% and chicken prices jumped more than 6% during the same period. The supply of beef hasn’t really dropped yet, so consumers should expect the prices at grocery stores to rise more over the long term. This is going to affect a budget of every family for sure, that some of my friends started to wonder: “Is it a good idea to live in a village, and have your own food produced?”

I hope that in order to keep prices as low as possible, nobody will try to sell a unhealthy animals. There is a lot of regulations and tests that shouldn’t be able to trick anyone, but still, in this crazy year, who knows whats possible?

I’m not a vegetarian, but sometimes I do eat vegetarian food. It’s tasty and very healthy, and usually it has a lot less calories then the food that includes milk, cheese, meat. I can eat it for a while, but, honestly, just yet I don’t feel that I’d have enough energy for all the quests life brings me every day if I’d eat only vegetables.

Anyway, here’s an interesting restaurant application for all of you who enjoys vegetarian food. It’s the Vegout, and his special ability is to find vegetarian restaurants at current location or by distance from a specified address. You can search via location, but you can’t search specific restaurant names. Restaurants are marked as vegan, vegetarian, vegetarian-friendly (and you can choose to only search vegan, or any or all of the options.) Cool little app, isn’t it?

And now I can start singing “Otherside” or “Californication”, but this article is not about popular music band. But I might write an article about them, considering that they did made a lot of great songs, and also, what is very important here, their name represents a food, a diet food, and that’s what I’m talking about here.

It is known for a long time already that the red peppers help suppress appetite and burn calories. Now, researchers report that even a reasonable amount of red pepper consumption may do the trick. Professors Richard Mattes and Mary-Jon Ludy found that eating a moderate amount of dried cayenne red pepper — less than a teaspoon — boosted calorie burn and reduced appetite, especially for people who didn’t typically use the spice. The researchers found that the capsaicin — the compound that gives red peppers its burn — raised the body’s core temperature during digestion in all participants, so everyone burned more calories after eating.Red peppers may not be a panacea for weight loss, but if you’re trying to cut down on calories before swimsuit season, it doesn’t hurt to add them to your plate.

I don’t know how exactly I came to this thought at all, to be honest, but, oh well… Since food is our main theme, I guess I could also mention few words about a food served in a prisons. In a way, I find it to be a grim topic, but still, I can not avoid something just because of my subjective feeling.

In many prisons, food is prepared by a chef, and sometimes it’s some of the prisoners who has an experience working as a chef while living outside the walls. In some others, food is delivered by some catering company. In the prisons where food is prepared in a prison kitchen, sometimes it happens that the director of the institution organized working in a field, so that prisoners can eat healthy, natural food, they made themselves. It is considered to be a very good for their moral and for getting a better picture of themselves by doing something very useful and in the same time, seeing the positive result of their work. Typical menus are designed to be low-sugar, low-salt, and to contain a moderate amount of calories. Considering the fact that they don’t have a lot of places to for a walk, this is for understanding.

Even though in some prisons there are desserts, chocolate bars or a pie, it is for understanding that a prison food is far from delicious. Of course, when someone make a mistake, he should not expect to be treated like a child. However, I must notice, no matter how good food there can be served, knowledge that you’re locked there for years and more, would take that taste away…

Airplanes. So fast. So useful. There is no faster way to travel. The distance car or a bus would pass can’t compare with the distance plane would pass for the same time. So, no matter if you run to a wedding of your cousin, or to a meeting with a company that’s offering a partnership or whatever else, airplane is always the best solution. Also, sometimes is a lot cheaper to travel by a plane then by a bus.

There is bad side of a traveling by a plane. You don’t have a lot of choice when it comes down to a dinner options. Of course, business and first class has a lot more options then the economic class, but even that is not so much. I mean, I don’t make a mess about it, because I understand that in the most of the planes there is no kitchen, at least not some that can come even close to some restaurant that we have down on earth, and also, when travel takes only a several hours, I really don’t think that lack of some specialities can be to tragic. Some people disagrees with me. They expect a lot of delicious meals in a plane restaurant menu, that is almost ridiculous. I mean, really, have you ever seen the chef in a plane? With his well-known hat? Passing through a corridor? I don’t think so. And what? Are stewardesses expected to cook while taking care of the passagers? They are not babysitters, I’m afraid…

If you are one of the people who can stand lack of culinary magic, then you better travel by a boat, for they can cross the ocean, and also, food on them is always great. But, if you don’t have a time to spend travelling on the water, than you better take something from home to have while you are in a plane.

Romania… I’m sure that each of us has one special association when think of this country. Vampires. Magic. Castles. Dark woods. But, here we are not interested in such matters, because all we are affraid of is lack of spices. And it has nothing to do with the blood-drinking demons.

Romanian cuisine has been greatly influenced by it’s neighbours(Germans, Srebians and Hungarians) and Ottoman cuisine. Many different types of cheese are made in Romania. Cheese is made there since Ancient history. For 76 years Romania was under Ottoman Empire, and during that time Turkish cuisine changed Romanian food. Specialy, there were changes in deserts, they started combining honey and nuts in cookies such as baklava, halva and rahat.

Pork and beef are mostly used meats in Romania, but good lamb is never refused also. It is a tradition that before Christmass a pig is cut up by every rural family.

Here we are with one more european kingdom. Even thought I usualy like to talk about kings, queens, castles and all, here we are because of one and only topic we have on this site. I’m sure you know what it is.

Danish cuisine started as a peasant population’s own local product. Cooking techniques become more developed after the Industrial Revolution, when it become easier to came to new spices and other goods. The open sandwiches, which in their basic form are the usual fare for lunch, can be considered a national speciality when prepared and decorated with a variety of fine ingredients.

Carlsberg and Tuborg are the most known Danish beverages. This is also very interesing information: In both 2010 and 2011 the Copenhagen restaurant Noma (short for nordisk mad – Nordic food) was named the world’s best restaurant by the Restaurant magazine.

No, it’s not about Thanksgiving day, and it’s not about a bird. It’s about an Eurasian country. It is a country surrounded by a few seas which makes it a perfect location for vacations.

Tukish cuisine is largely the heritage of Ottoman cuisine, which was under a lot of influences of Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Wars and immigration made such mix in a national cuisines in this area, that for some meals is not known for sure who developed it first. As far as I’m considered, it doesn’t matter, as long as food is tasty.

Each meal is important, so for the breakfast, it is not unusual to eat a soup, but mostly are eaten cheese, butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, and kaymak.

During the summer, it is a very, very hot in Turkey, so at this time of year, vegetables are mostly consumed.

Although fast food is gaining popularity and many major foreign fast food chains have opened all over Turkey, Turkish people still rely primarily on the rich and extensive dishes of the Turkish cuisine.

“Under the sea, under the sea…” Lovely song from a lovely movie. “The little mermaid” is one of the main reasons I wasn’t interested in a seafood for a long time. But, I came back to it from time to time now, for it’s very healthy. And tasty, of course.

Seafood includes any form of food taken from the sea. Seafood is often distinguished from meat, although it is still animal and is excluded in a strict vegetarian diet. It is said that seafood is “food for the brain”. Also, it is a good heart keeper, for it’s noticed that fish-eating Inuit populations in the Arctic had low levels of heart disease.

Fish is eaten in many forms, grilled or in a soup. Crabs are also very popular. Probably the most well-known meal is caviar, food made of fish eggs.

Here we are with the second largest country by total area. My first thoughts of Canada are  maple leaf, rangers, lot of wildlife. Do you know that in it’s biggest cities, such as Vancouver, you can see wild animals passing the street with no fear?

With so much wildlife it is aspected that Canadian cuisine contains a lot of meals with wild animals. In the begining it was, centuries ago, however, with immigrations though the years, Canadian cuisine has become very similar to French and British cuisine. While many ingredients are commonly found throughout Canada, each region with its own history and local population have unique ingredients. These regional ingredients in turn and made into region dishes.

With so much influences, whenever you are in Canada, you will be able to find a restaurant menus that settles your taste.