Category: Food news
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Seasonal eating for March
In like a lion and out like a lamb – and at the moment we’re somewhere in the middle! The beginning of March can still feel like the worst of winter but by the end of the month we will hopefully be seeing the first signs of spring.
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Get ready for Fairtrade fortnight
It’s not long until the start of Fairtrade Fortnight – a wonderful chance for all you foodies to widen your horizons with some fantastic, ethically-produced ingredients from around the world.
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School cookery 'to be compulsory'
Here’s a great story from BBC Online – remember those days of messing about in the school cookery classroom? And learning useful stuff despite yourself? It looks like the youth of today is set not to be deprived of the same fun: Cookery classes to be compulsory Cookery lessons are to be compulsory in England’s…
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Are fish and chips becoming too expensive a delicacy?
A fascinating glimpse this morning of what Americans make of one of our national dishes – and our national obsession with it. This article in the New York Times asks whether Europe’s appetite for seafood – including the British craving for white fish – is fuelling an illegal trade in the commodity as well as…
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Are we getting enough veg? Can we get enough veg?
Here’s a very interesting story from today’s Independent about the problems in some areas of the UK in actually getting hold of enough fresh fruit and veg. An academic has been researching the problem, and has come up with some alarming results
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Supermarkets admit milking customers of £270m
Here’s a fascinating story from BBC Online about supermarkets and the price of dairy products.
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A taste of life at La Gavroche
Can you imagine what it would be like to be let loose in the kitchen of La Gavroche, the exclusive Michelin-starred Mayfair restaurant where Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White learned their trade under the watchful eyes of the Roux brothers?
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Calling all cooks: Delia's back
All those that regretted the passing of the Queen of Cookery from television, never fear. As is so often the case it has turned out to be not as final as it sounded at the time. Delia Smith is reportedly poised to make a return to the small screen with a new show for the…