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Month: August 2008

  • Quick Foodie Quiz 4 – answers

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    Here are the answers: What is a pashka? A Russian dessert traditionally served at Easter A Polish potato-based pattie A traditional serving dish used at Greek weddings A kitchen utensil similar to a mortar and pestle In which year did chef Keith Floyd make his first TV appearance? 1980 1982 1984 1986 What is amaranth?…

  • Organic vs Conventional Farming – the debate

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    Waitrose has recently published an excellent podcast of a debate about organic issues between Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association, and Anthony Gibson, Director of Communications for the National Farmers’ Union (NFU). Very interesting, informative and thought-provoking – and it’s refreshing to listen to a reasonable debate where the participants aren’t knocking metaphorical lumps…

  • Back to nature…

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    The rise and rise of the organic farming movement over the past century.

  • Love Your Leftovers

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    Which? revealed today the results of a survey, commissioned by Sainsbury’s, which showed that people are wasting less food because of the credit crunch. People are cooking more from scratch and using up leftovers more often. However, a spokesperson for Sainsbury’s said that the research had also revealed that widespread confusion over “best before” and…

  • Save Our Sprays?

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    The EU plans to change the rules on pesticides, herbicides, fungicides – to the dismay of many UK farmers. But is Farmers Weekly’s petition the right way to express that dismay?

  • Wozza’s Whoopsie

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    A slip of the tongue has chef Antony Worrall Thompson accidentally recommending using a poisonous plant in recipes…