Courtesy of the Guild of Food Writers, I took a lovely trip down Memory Lane last night. Actually, both down my own personal lane and down through the history of English cookbooks. The occasion was a talk by Peter Ross, Principal Librarian at the Guildhall Library in charge of …
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FMT also known as stool transplants or faecal bacteriotherapy…
...and, as you can imagine, a whole load of less scientific terms of which 'transpoosions' is one of the less cringe-making... But, whatever about the terminology, as the conviction grows that the health of inhabitants of our bowels, be they bacteria or parasites, may play a …
Autumn trees – and bulbs….
Autumn colours are definitely the order of the day but... ...our focus has been on daffodils... Read more... …
Total food intolerance – a lethal condition
'Less than a year ago I was a bright, happy, energetic, slightly overweight 45 year old. Now I am a shadow of my former self. My husband and children are worried sick about me, I am having to re-home my beloved dog as I can no longer walk him and and I so fear that my days are …
Weird allergies
Working my way through John Scott's weekly round-up of research (see our research forums for the full nine yards – and to subscribe to a particular thread of research if it especially interests you) I was just amazed, last week, by the weirdness of some of the allergies that he …