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THE THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT AND DO TO PUT THE WORLD BACK ON AN EVEN KEEL To bring about the Renaissance that is so urgently required we need: To rethink everything we do and take for granted from first principles; to rethink everything in the light of everything else; and to re-structure where…
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As I argued in my blog on human population on November 10: “… because the issues are so emotive, the subject has become taboo: verboten… Those who write about population are likely to be “cancelled”, or as the Amish say, “shunned”, only worse” In particular: “… anyone who suggests that we should consciously set out to reduce numbers…
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Slow Cooking is the method called for in the deep mid-winter. There are more benefits, and applications than you might imagine.
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The derek cooper award This month, out of the blue and marvellously, Ruth and I became the proud recipients of one of the BBC Food Programme’s Food and Farming Awards; to wit, “the Derek Cooper Award for Outstanding Achievement”. It is a great honour and a great fillip. Derek was a fine writer and a…
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I ended each chapter with a few recipes plagiarised from various sources but modified in the light of what was then the orthodox nutritional theory. The emphasis was on low-fat, under the influence of the American physiologist / nutritionist Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Keys’s general idea – that we should follow a basically Mediterranean diet –…
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No issue is more divisive than that of human population. Anyone who ventures to discuss it in public risks abuse, or worse, from all sides. But, says Colin Tudge, no one should doubt that human numbers matter. We cannot afford simply to duck the issue. Sir David Attenborough tells us that the human population has…