‘We fed an Island’ – Jose Andreas

The true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico – one meal at a time . Please buy this book and support -World Central Kitchen

Food – why remaining connected to Europe is Crucial

Fresh fruit, vegetables, meat all may become effected by a ‘No Deal’ Brexit and leaving the European Union and the Supply Chains breaking down or getting held up and fresh foods perishing. Its no longer just about taking away the future of the next generation to travel and live where they want to without borders […]

Netherlands- Spring

Do chickens burp?

When you look happily at a lovely piece of brie, chocolates or if you are a meat eater – steak – new research confirms that cows when they burp release significant amounts of methane – from the front not the back. Perhaps its something to do with double stomach. We do eat dairy but […]

Connemara Smokehouse

Teatime

Drifted next door into a delicatessen waiting for a pizza – discovered shelves stacked high with lovely food – that would never normally buy but love to.. including beautiful fragile boxes of biscuits called Butterflies – Lemon Crisps and Rosehip Biscuits Artisan Biscuits

Best and Worst Foods for your Thyroid

The most important trick of treating any problems with the thyroid gland is to find the cause. It can fall in five major categories, according to Prudence Hall, MD, from The Hall Center, which include heavy metal toxicity, genetics, iodine deficiency, and gluten. “In general, anything that is bad for the body is bad for the […]

Lettuce

“Lettuce is low in Sodium, and very low in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Iron and Potassium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Folate and Manganese” nutritiondata.self.com Vitamin B6 is naturally present in many foods. The body needs […]

Moose like Bananas

Not sure why but moose love bananas

First wondered if my cat thought he was Elvis…

Not because he stands infront of the mirror in a white leather suite – sorry suit – with tassles but he likes to eat. Everything – potatoes are his favorite but he also likes chips. Apart from the ‘W’ word and dont mean earthworm jim – he could be bored and lonely, even depressed […]

Italy Unpacked – Series 1, 2 and 3 Clips and Series 3 Iplayer

Earthy regional Italian recipes by Chef Giorgio while Art Critic Andrew explains history of frescos on their tour around Italy. Episode 3 finishes in Dolomites near Austrian border – beautiful scenary and their meal is trout freshly caught from mountain lake with Italian twist on Knodels. If you are thinking of travelling in Italy and […]

World’s Greatest Food Markets with Roger Barton – New York

Love the atnosphere of markets but there is always a lot of strategies going on and its easy to work hard for nothing. I dont know what the answer is to doing well – but working early hours in a market and in the fruit, flower and vegetable markets through the night – makes it […]

Sushi Stall at Brighton Open Market

Open Market – Like Tea?

We dont sell at the Open Market any more but first time we had a stall there, impressed that this new market housed many permanent small businesses, open studios upstairs (there is a lift in the corner – looks a little like getting into a white tardis) and traders like us on the big floor […]

Identity and blackstrap molasses

these thoughts spinning round in my head the first for a few reasons but watching a film review reallised what i have been searching for. Someone described a film to be released this year as a life changing film, a search for ‘personal identity’ its about an alien absorbing information about our world. i expect […]