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 … Read more
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 – … Read more
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 … Read more
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.
Fresh Inspiration
When faced with the same old ingredients we need to get inventive. Its time to learn something new.
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.
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 … Read more
Appetisers
Adding an appetiser course would be a great improvement to our British “meat and two veg” meal format.
Can organic farming feed the world?
It’s too early to tell, says colin tudge. BUT we ought to give it our best shot On a recent Farming Today This Week on Radio 4 a Shropshire farmer who among other things grows wheat, declared that organic farming is “never going to feed the world”. And this view is clearly shared by many … Read more