No wine? Then no lunch. France and the Iranian president and other food and drink news

Royalty Visits Barossa Valley - Royalty has come to the Barossa Valley and this has brought back Alice Normal, the Hong Kong based fashionista, who returns to celebrate this event and with her keen eye presents HRH and her choice of hats. Now, Camilla may not have received the fashion high fives she deserves, overshadowed by younger royals, however in the humble opinion of Glug we consider Camilla's millinery style to be second only to her mother in law HM Queen Elizabeth II. Blessed with numerous occasions to wear fabulous hats Her Royal Highness never ever disappoints, almost always wearing a chapeau created by Philip Treacy.

Working with a palette limited to neutral tones that stretch from light beige to a dark beige, this and HRH's preference for asymmetry and partridge feathers has allowed her to elevate the necessity for royal headwear to a true art form.

Francois Hollande-Hassan Rouhani Elysée lunch binned over 'wine row' - Official lunch between the presidents during the Iranian president's historic trip to Paris next week scrapped after French decline request to serve halal meal and no wine.

Splat goes the theory: Local and organic is a romantic myth – the future of sustainable agriculture is all about smart technology and scaling up.  Few people are indifferent to the sun-drenched cherry tomatoes served up in every picturesque Italian village trattoria; or a well-tended vegetable garden where the branches of each tomato plant are carefully tied by hand with a green ribbon – these fruits are harvested with loving care. Most likely you feel that such tomatoes should be organically grown, on small fields, reflecting tradition and history. You might think that, this way, they accrue authenticity, honesty and truth, that their production will be small-scale, and preferably local. But how ‘good’ are they really? And what does ‘good’ mean in this context? Are the organic hand-picked tomatoes sold at farmers’ markets really better, in a technical sense, or do they just make us feel like better consumers – perhaps even better human beings? If the organic tomato is just a vehicle for romantic fallacy, then we have to look dispassionately at how they are grown from the perspective of sustainability.

But surely, you’ll object, tomatoes grown in small-scale gardens taste better. Not so! Double-blind tasting panels have been unable to pick out the greenhouse tomatoes as lacking in flavour, or tomatoes grown without fertiliser as more tasteful. According to Dutch reports on such testing, taste is more dependent on the variety of tomato than on the way it is grown. More importantly, the context of eating determines everything. The on-the-vine tomatoes you consume with mozzarella and olive oil on a village square in Italy will never taste the same at home. It’s a matter of psychology and gastronomy, not chemistry and biology.

Nestle: Stop Using Snoopy to Sell Candy to Kids - Nestle has a better track record than most companies when it comes to not marketing junk food to kids. The company has pledged not to advertise candy to kids under 12—and most of the time that’s true. But now the company has put Snoopy and other Peanuts characters on Crunch candy bars. 

Kids don’t need any encouragement to like and eat candy—from Snoopy or anyone else. Ask Nestle to stop. Send them an email from HERE