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ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 1: Agriculture is vital – and so is enlightened cookery
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1 comment on ENLIGHTENED COOKERY 1: Agriculture is vital – and so is enlightened cookeryAfter more than 60 years of inquiry and self-indulgence Colin Tudge concludes that good farming, sound nutrition, great gastronomy, and care of the natural world could and should operate in perfect harmony. This offers a very significant ray of hope in an otherwise desperate world Enlightened Agriculture is vital if we, humanity, seriously aspire to…
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Harvest 2026
Weather conditions in 2026 raised many questions for farmers, however Suzanne found optimism amongst a new generation embracing Farm Feasts.
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The absolute importance of enlightened agriculture -and why we need a new renaissance
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Colin Tudge points out a few things that ought to be intuitively obvious but apparently are not (which largely explains why the world is in such a mess) It ought to be intuitively obvious that farming in the broad sense, to include arable and ranching and horticulture and agroforestry and cultivated oyster beds and mussels…
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Are we witnessing the death of the Great British Pub?
Its called the hospitality sector, yet hospitality is what is so frequently missing today.
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A Food Culture Worth Saving
Suzanne 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.