The price of local dairy products is set to increase again next week except for plain and flavoured fresh milk.
This is to compensate for the growing expenses
Prices of staple food products - including bread, butter and other dairy products - have increased sharply as local producers try to cover costs that have been
Where’s the jab?
I read on The Sunday Telegraph) that in the UK (population 60m+) all the over-50s will have been offered the vaccine by mid-April and all adults will be dealt with before the summer holidays. And, yet, in Malta (pop 400,000+), we haven’t yet got round to inoculating the over-75s.
Are we really doing as well, here, as the government pretends?
Revel Barker – Għajnsielem
Photo: Jonathan Borg
Were a law passed that would prohibit the creation of new detergents or the use of the word ‘detergent’ to describe cleaning products using novel concoctions, both the chemicals industry and the public would complain, yet flag-waving, homely earthiness has made this state of affairs acceptable when it comes to food.
To give an idea of their local flavour, literally, it is a habit for national pavilions at international fairs and events to treat visitors to nibbles represent
Dairy production giants Benna fought against traditional ġbejna makers’ efforts to have their beloved cheeselets protected across the EU, it is being claimed in court.
The
Xirka Produtturi Nagħaġ u Mogħoż, an association of sheep and goat herders, claim that their efforts to have the delicacy recognised were met with objections from the island’s largest dairy producer.
The documents, backed up by official minutes of consultation meetings seen by
Times of Malta, suggest a David and Goliath contest over the type and origin of milk used.
Had the traditional sheep herders won, the small rounds of cheese would only be called ġbejna if they were made of milk from Maltese sheep.