The promotion campaign will be carried out outside of Europe, where a public health campaign, also launched by the Commission, calls for alcohol to be drunk in moderation. people will be very surprised," she added, days ahead of a meeting of European agriculture ministers in Mainz, Germany. Last year Brussels presented plans for substantial reform of the wine sector, aimed at ending the chronic overproduction and decreasing the subsidies paid to viniculturists. This would include uprooting...

A range of other foods studied, including vegetables, fruit juice, citrus and kiwi fruit, whole grains, dairy fat and margarine, did not produce the same protective effects. Apples and fish sound an unlikely food combination, even for a pregnant woman, but new evidence suggests they can protect unborn children against allergic diseases. Researchers found that children whose mothers enjoyed munching apples while pregnant were less likely to have suffered from wheeze or been diagnosed with...

But what do you do when the markets are overflowing with it and you bring home more fruit than you can possibly eat? Force it on your neighbors? Learn how to can? Turn it into compost? Unfortunately for anybody with too many peaches or plums, you can't legally operate a still in the United States without jumping through a lot of regulatory hoops. In Europe, berries, stone fruits and apples are often distilled into elegant fruit brandies called "eaux de vie. At the time of the American...

Researchers found that children whose mothers enjoyed munching apples while pregnant were less likely to have been diagnosed with asthma by the age of five. A range of other foods studied, including vegetables, fruit juice, citrus and kiwi fruit, whole grains, dairy fat and margarine, did not produce the same protective effects. Similarly, the sons and daughters of mothers who ate fish once or more a week during pregnancy appeared to be protected against the skin allergy eczema....

If you grow apples in your back yard, you probably already know about apple maggots, the pests that leave fruit an inedible, mushy brown mess. They lay eggs in the flesh of apples, the eggs hatch into maggots, and the maggots eat their way through the fruit. The insects pose a serious threat to home and commercial crops because they're so destructive and so difficult to eliminate, particularly for homeowners who can't use the same pesticides as commercial growers. Local growers who've...