Forget that parsley – and those miserable little chard shoots which failed to grow into anything remotely edible... I no longer need them! I have just discovered Farm Direct, a delivery service in Islington which collects produce from local (max. 70 miles from London) farms …
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Parsley
After my sad failure with my chard and my spinach (no, they never did get any bigger than in the sad little picture I posted back in May – although I have since been assured that no-one in their right mind would try to grow chard from seed except in the greenhouse as the young …
The health giving properties of red wine
I have always thought that it was no accident that, when all else fails, the one 'food' that two of the most allergic people that I know (Micki Rose and Anna Locatelli) can always tolerate – and the one 'food' that revives me if I have had too close an encounter with some …
Where has all the flavour gone?….
Is it me – or have some vegetables and herbs just lost it?..... Garlic, for example. I remember the day when one small clove would flavour a whole dish; nowadays, most garlic is so gentle that you can use half a dozen large cloves and you are still groping for the …
Is Sugar Toxic?
One of the purposes of starting this blog was to be able to highlight concerns which really do not fall within the remit of foodsmatter.com and its satellites. So I shall use this post to pass on one of John Scott's links to a lengthy but fascinating article in the New York Times …