Word: flours
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...beef. We work on low margin of profit and economies of scale; we rely on selling a lot of sandwiches, so it has a huge impact on us.” Felipe’s owner Tom Brush also noted the extraordinary price spikes of everything from dairy to flour products in the past six months, but said he has seen a softening of costs in recent weeks. While he said Felipe’s has always tried to keep its prices “as reasonable as possible,” he said he has noticed a change...
...similar runs on black tea fungus, oolong tea and konnyaku; during the 1980s it was baby formula, banana and boiled egg; then, in the '90s, came apple, nata de coco, cocoa and chili pepper; and during this decade black vinegar, carrot juice, soy milk, beer yeast and toasted soybean flour (kinako). Last year's fermented soybean (natto) diet emptied supermarket shelves. Based on experience, Horiuchi predicts that the banana boom will last only another month or so. "In the past, there were all kinds of hit diets. But they never last, do they? So, we don't really want...
...based in Arlington, Va., had to run both the logistics of getting wheat to TPS's central Javanese factory and the program itself. That meant clearing customs in Jakarta, delivering the wheat to the millers and then distributing the flour to the factories charged with producing the noodles. "Some factories did a better job than others," says Keys. Among the problems: some had no bags to package the noodles, while others simply failed to produce the agreed output...
...prevent fraud, IRD avoids paying cash up front for products and services. It also requires its for-profit partners to reinvest any proceeds derived from IRD wheat. Instead, the millers who process the wheat are reimbursed with a portion of the flour they make to sell at market rate. Factories get the flour free of cost but are required to reinvest their proceeds into new production. IRD collects 66% of the profits, which it then uses for other programs in the country, including a water-treatment facility, snacks for school children and health services. IRD keeps 10% of all funding...
Quality control is its biggest challenge. On occasion, either the millers fail to produce the contracted grade of flour or some of the factories fail to pay IRD its share of profits. IRD tests batches each month and refuses anything that does not pass muster. If factories fail to pay on time, IRD sends bill collectors after them and threatens not to renew their contracts. "We put the fear of the Lord in them," say Peggy Sheehan, adviser to IRD president Keys. The USDA also sent inspectors to Indonesia to make sure its donations were being used as intended...