Who’s Drinking “Real Elephant Dung” Coffee?

    From The Lush, Scenic, Greene, Majestic Hills of Thailand come a rare and delicate drink: Coffee Grown from Elephant Dung!    The Coffee   GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Thailand — In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world’s most expensive coffee. Trumpeted as earthy in […]

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Should We Take a Second Look at the Benefits of Palm Oil?

  Often overlooked as unhealthy, palm oils, which congeal at room temperature, may have some surprising anti-carcinogenic properties.   A staple in Southeast Asian cooking because if it’s availability, palm oil contains a certain type of vitamin E called tocotrienol. Although tocotrienols can be found in rice bran, barley and wheat, palm oil is the […]

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Botanists discover new rat-eating plant

Botanists believe they have discovered one of the world’s largest carnivorous plants in Southeast Asia. The giant pitcher plants were located in Palawan, central Philippines by a team led by UK botanist Stewart McPherson

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Name your poison: ‘Snake wine’ seized at airport

Everyone has heard of the worm at the bottom of the bottle, but what customs officials in Miami found kicked that up a few notches. United States Customs and Border Protection officers conducting a routine inspection on Wednesday seized a cobra and other poisonous snakes in a bottle believed to be “snake wine.” Customs officials said the snakes, mixed in a glass container containing some form of alcohol, were inside an express mail package from Thailand. Jose Castellano, a spokesman for U.S

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