3, 700
The cost in dollars that a pair of ‘Taiyo no Tomago’ mangoes were auctioned at this Thursday in Tokyo. According to Kyodo News, it was a record price for the fruit’s first auction of the season (shocking).
222,000,000
The number of tons of food wasted a year in industrialised countries, according to the House of Lords EU Committee. That’s the same weight as 44 million average-sized African Elephants.
8,000,000
The number of Easter Eggs sold in the UK every year, which equates to almost 2080 tons!
900
The international restaurant industry experts and well-travelled gourmetswho voted Fergus Henderson as the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award this week.
Mango© Bang Doll, flickr
Easter Egg© Fabergé