Just doing a quick peruse of Comment is Free when I found this:-
Asked about that modern green dilemma - whether it is better to buy organic fair trade from developing countries, Monty’s reply was uncompromising and a little politically incorrect. “Maybe the third world countries also have to suffer a bit as a result of […]
via the BBC:
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay says British restaurants should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which are not in season. He says it would cut carbon emissions as less food would be imported and also lead to improved standards of cooking.
I was considering going to one of his restaurants for a special […]
I know that there’s individual opinions on these things, but there was a blind tasting test shown on BBC’s Countryfile this morning, comparing an organic chicken, a corn fed chicken, a free range chicken and an intensively produced chicken.
To some surprise of the people running and doing the tasting, the intensively produced chicken won.
From The Daily Telegraph
However, the doyenne of cooks was unrepentant, saying she had fully expected a backlash to her new show Delia, which promises to help cut corners, save time and take the fear out of entering a kitchen.
I watched the show, and I’m not sure how much she “cut corners”. Cutting corners means doing […]
via The Times
The animals, however, are destined for the dinner plate, with butchers and restaurateurs reporting a growing demand for the wild game meat. They are breeding rapidly, particularly in Kent, East Sussex, West Dorset, the Forest of Dean, the fringes of Dartmoor and other parts of Devon.
There’s a few sightings of them in […]
India Knight
We are not as naive as we used to be and we notice things. The bacon leaks the water it has been artificially pumped up with, the vegetables are perfect only because they have been sprayed with chemicals, nobody much wants to feed their children jars of nondescript mush, the clothes’ cheapness […]
I had some nectarines that were a little past best and happened to have bought some ratafia biscuits, so decided to try this. I’m sure that someone else must have done this or something like it but I can’t remember where, so here goes:-
Ingredients
Nectarines
A few ratafia biscuits per nectarine
Demerera Sugar
Method
Stone the nectarines into […]
via The BBC
The campaign was led by chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on his recent Hugh’s Chicken Run shows for Channel 4.
Directly after the series was aired, Tesco said sales of standard chickens increased by 7% and free-range by 3%.
Sainsbury’s free-range sales have gone up by 50% but there were also more of its Basics […]
Until I was playing scrabulous today, I had no idea that Kia Ora was a maori greeting meaning “hello”.
For anyone too young to understand the headline:-
On food buying
Try to buy a remotely healthy or low-calorie meal in a station, football stadium or most pubs and restaurants and you might as well cry for the moon. It is no surprise that obesity has doubled in the past 25 years and by 2050 we will be mainly an obese society.
I didn’t start […]
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