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A Food Culture Worth Saving
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No comments on A Food Culture Worth SavingSuzanne proposes the UK Food Culture as a topic for the Renaissance Movement and invites examples worth saving.
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Beans by many other names: Part one
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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Beans by many other names: Part two: the recipes
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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The Renaissance Party
Although there are many thousands of political parties in the world already Colin Tudge argues that we need one more – to help bring about the cross-the-board transformation of ideas and actions that the world really needs Warning: I am very aware that I have said most of what follows before, many a time and…
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Food with a Sense of Place
How mass production deprives us of food that has a real sense of place and how we can fight back.
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Fresh Inspiration
When faced with the same old ingredients we need to get inventive. Its time to learn something new.
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Dorothy Hartley’s Food in England
The post-Christmas period is one in which I used to enjoy reading the latest new cookery publications, but there have been very few of quality in recent years. So, I was more than happy when Colin suggested I devote an entire blog to one of our enduring favourites – Dorothy Hartley’s Food in England.
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Agriculture is by far the most important thing that human beings do – the thing we absolutely have to get right. So why won’t the powers-that-be take it seriously? By Colin Tudge
Small farms and farmers are disappearing at an alarming rate – and yet they are vital. Colin Tudge suggests that a prime task for humanity (among a host of others) is to re-establish agriculture as the focus of all our endeavours and to raise the status of farmers The only people who are truly treasured…
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Appetisers
Adding an appetiser course would be a great improvement to our British “meat and two veg” meal format.