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Beer for sunflower oil? Munich pub finds way to beat frying crunch

  By Reuters, published by The Straits Times Berlin – A Munich brewpub has found a novel way to beat Europe’s cooking oil shortages – letting customers pay for their beer with sunflower oil to ensure plentiful stocks for frying schnitzels. With Ukraine and Russia accounting for about 80 per cent of global exports of

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Life

Stir-fried minced pork with basil and rice but without cooking oil, anyone?

By Thai Newsroom Reporters STIR-FRIED MINCED PORK with basil and rice, better known as Pad Kaprao Moo Sab Rad Khao, may look utterly plain and commonplace anywhere in Thailand. But that particular type of street food is delicately different at a certain food shop in Rayong. At Kalaya ”Auntie Ya” Yai-on’s roadside food shop in

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