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A chef using a cooking torch on a dessert at Refettorio Gastromotiva RIO DE JANEIRO — Consider what it takes to keep all those Olympian machines nourished and hydrated for one meal at the Rio Games: 250 tons of raw ingredients to fill the bellies of  18,000 athletes, coaches and officials in the Olympic Village. Now multiply that figure by three — for breakfast, lunch and dinner — and again for each day of the Games. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Italian chef Massimo Bottura also did the math and was inspired, not by the tantalizing dimensions of herculean consumption but by the prospect of colossal waste. “I thought, this is an opportunity to do something that can make a difference,” said Mr. Bottura, 53, a fast-talking blur of a man whose restaurant in Modena, Osteria Francescana, recently earned the top award from the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. On Thursday night, that something looked like this: In a fraying section of downtown

Name:  Blue latte. Age:  Less than a week old. Appearance:  Blue. What on earth goes into a latte to make it blue?  Ginger, lemon, coconut milk, agave and blue algae powder. That sounds a bit experimental.  It’s very popular. The blue latte was onlyintroduced at Melbourne’s vegan Matcha Mylkbar last Saturday, and they’ve already sold more than 100 of them, at A$8 (£4.60) each. Nearly a fiver for a coffee?  Well, no, not exactly. Coffee is not among the listed ingredients of the blue latte. What? How can you charge nearly a fiver for a latte with no actual coffee in it?  It’s down to the blue algae, which costs as much as $3 a gram and is said to have powerful antioxidant properties. Customers can’t get enough of it. For that money, it must taste fantastic.  “It has a strong seaweed-type smell,” says someone who has tried it. According to staff at Matcha Mylkbar, it’s reminiscent of sour milk, with a tart aftertaste. A hugely expensive blue coffee that tastes terrible

A survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing has said she is "horrified" by Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan might benefit from nuclear weapons and has urged the president to visit the site of the tragedy so he can "educate" himself.