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Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Some Indian restaurants are so short of chefs they are employing Liberal Democrat MPs
Leicester Oral History Trail 3: Simpkin & James
Simpkin & James, a grocers rather than a department store, closed in 1971. There were a number of branches around the county, including Oadby and Stoneygate. They closed the same year.
You can read more about Simpkin & James in an old number of the Leicestershire Historian.
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Evan Harris claims Hacked Off are not hypocrites for their stance on John Whittingdale.
You can never have enough takedowns of Seumas "Christopher Robin" Milne. This one by Peter Wilby is particularly good.
Felicity Cloake asks why eating has become so complicated.
Backwatersman pays tribute to the England batsman James Taylor, who has been forced to retire because of a heart condition: "When he took on ... great lummoxes like Andre Nel and Tremlett he might have been Chaplin outwitting Eric Campbell with a deft swish of his walking cane. In fact, one of the many things I remain hugely grateful to him for is allowing me to recapture (quite late in life) that childlike pleasure of having a favourite player, one whom I liked more than I could ever quite rationally account for."
"The locks known as Caen Hill ... rise 237 feet over two miles – with 16 of them virtually back to back.Each trip up and down takes five hours." David Hencke and friends take on one of the inland waterways' greatest challenges.
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Tesco's marketing strategy involves making us feel warm towards farms that do not exist, explains Tom Levitt.
Charlotte Gill is not impressed by a Leeds primary school's decision to ban the game of tag: " I find all of this safeguarding a great shame. It shows how childhood, which should be a free and exploratory time, is now being over-policed."
JohnBoy pays tribute to Barry Hines. Among the facts he is uncovers is that Hines once played in a Loughborough Colleges team alongside Dario Gradi and Bob Wilson.
"Though the origin of Easter eggs and Easter bunnies can be traced back to ancient times, the Victorians did not begin to celebrate Easter in the way that we know now until the late 19th century. It was then that Easter bunnies became fashionable." Some fascinating social history from Mimi Matthews.
Eric Grunhauser on the stave churches of Norway, which combine Christian architecture with Nordic designs and the motifs of a Viking great hall.
Irate Frenchman hurled Camembert at manager of Chelsea Waitrose
I spotted it. A reader nominated it. The judges love it.
The Evening Standard receives our Headline of the Day Award.
The Evening Standard receives our Headline of the Day Award.
The sugar tax and the infantilisation of coffee
In the short term it may operate like that, but the long-term effect of the tax is likely to be that manufacturers reformulate their products to avoid having to charge the tax.
Good news for the poor, though not for the school sports schemes that will benefit from the money it raises.
Children like sweet things and there are good evolutionary reasons why this should be so. Sweet things tend to be safe to eat. If children loved bitter green things the race would never have survived.
But in the last few years something terrible has happened to coffee. Queue in one of the chains today and the odds are you will find yourself queuing behind an adult buying a drink that looks like an ice cream sundae. It may well contain a similar amount of sugar.
We are, of course, free to eat as much sugar as we like, but there is a political dimension to this remaking of public taste.
Maybe it is the coffee shops that should be reformulating their products to avoid a sugar tax?
The Boxmoor Playhouse and letters about custard
I once wrote of Boxmoor County Primary School:
I was very happy at Boxmoor, though in one way adversity there helped make me a Liberal. The dinners were cooked elsewhere and brought to the school, and they were indescribably awful. (My mother let me come home for dinner after a while.) And if you didn't want custard with your pudding, you had to have a letter from home.
I now regard this as an early introduction to the absurdities of socialism.That was the old Boxmoor County Primary in St John's Road, which was demolished long ago.
We had our dinners in the church hall next door. That building still stands, though it is now called The Boxmoor Playhouse. (There appears to be a new hall built recently next to the church.)
We also held fetes in the hall and I once gave a well-received Innkeeper in the school nativity play.
It's not quite the Saville Theatre, but I am glad to see that somewhere I trod the boards is still thriving.
Lord Bonkers' Diary: Cooking hedgehogs for Nick Clegg
Cooking hedgehogs for Nick Clegg
One does not have memories of last year’s general election campaign so much as flashbacks, but I do recall visiting a hedgehog sanctuary with poor Clegg and Paddy Ashplant. While Clegg was being shown how the inmates are cared for and educated, Ashplant took me to one side and confessed that he used to eat the creatures when he was in the Special Boat Service.
Having invited Clegg to dinner this evening, I hit upon the happy idea of reminding him of those days by serving hedgehog. Cook is not keen – “nasty, flea-ridden things that don’t belong in a Christian kitchen” – and claims not to know how to manage “all they prickles,” so I enlist the help of the Elves of Rockingham Forest, who quite charm her. They tell us that the trick is to bake the beasts in clay so that when they are done to a turn you simply break the clay open and then peel it and the spines clean off. The Elves also agree to catch the hedgehogs for us using high elven magic (or possibly Pedigree Chum).
I have no doubt that the evening will prove a success and that our hedgehog recipe will appear in the next Liberal Democrat Cookbook alongside Pressed Tonge and Norman Lamb Hotpot.
Lord Bonkers was Liberal MP for Rutland South West 1906-10.
Earlier this week in Lord Bonkers' Diary
Paddy Ashdown, Malcolm Saville and eating hedgehogs
Looking back at the campaign, it is the comic moments he remembers. For instance, his first visit was to a hedgehog sanctuary, with Paddy Ashdown. Ashdown muttered under his breath to Clegg: “When I was in the Special Boat Service we used to eat hedgehogs.”Talk of eating hedgehogs inevitably reminds those of us who grew up on Malcolm Saville of his second Lone Pine story Seven White Gates.
At the beginning of the book Peter (Petronella) Sterling is cycling to her mysterious uncle' farm under the Stiperstones.
On the way she comes across a Gypsy caravan whose horse is running away with the little girl driving it (Fenella) after being frightened by a tank (the book was published in 1944). Peter risks her life to bring the horse under control.
Later she eats with the Gypsy family:
Peter stood by and watched the other gipsies rake away the hot embers of their wood fire, until two cylinders of baked clay were exposed. Fenella ran for a dish from the Reubens' van and one of the glowing cylinders was poked on to it. Then, with mutual expressions of good will, the cooks and the Reubens with their guest parted.
Round their own fire, Peter watched how the baked clay was cracked and peeled off, bringing with it the spines of the hedgehog and leaving him bare but beautifully cooked. From the pot came a stew of gravy and vegetables, a generous helping of which was piled on to the plate of the guest of honour.
She didn't see how Reuben divided up the hedgehog, but her share was certainly tasty - something between rabbit and chicken - and she was so hungry that she finished her plateful almost as soon as Fenella.I don't know if that is how they cooked hedgehog in the SAS. And, though this method would deal neatly with the spines, Saville does not mention what has happened to the giblets.
As to the taste of hedgehog I am reminded of Jonathan Meades' comment:
People say frogs' legs taste of chicken. They are wrong. They taste of frog.Read more on Malcolm Saville and Gypsies.
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"The long term trend of the decline of membership and support for political parties has, if anything, accelerated, and long standing loyalties to right or left have given way to a far more complicated political reality in which populist or even anti democratic voices are now being increasingly heard." Cicero's Songs on the crisis of conventional political parties.
"What to do with a broken ship full of explosives? That question has been debated off and on for the past seven decades, and the consensus has been to leave it alone, safer right where it is. So there the ship sits at the bottom of the estuary, the area around it cordoned off by buoys." Robkam on the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, which lies in the Thames Estuary.
California's third-largest city is a desert ghost town - Laura Bliss explains.
Martyn Barber and Edward Carpenter present some striking aerial photographs that reveal previously unsuspected archaeological sites.
Tiffany Imogen celebrates gifts from the hedgerow.
2013 Dirty Dozen and Clean 15
2013 Dirty Dozen and Clean 15
About this time every year the Environmental Working Group releases their latest list of foods highest and lowest in pesticide residue. This week I want to share with you their updated lists for 2013. They have again expanded the Dirty Dozen with a Plus category to highlight two crops -- kale and collard greens.
According to the EWG, these vegetables "did not meet traditional Dirty Dozen criteria but were commonly contaminated with highly toxic organophosphate insecticides. These insecticides are toxic to the nervous system and have been largely removed from agriculture over the past decade. But they are not banned and still show up on some food crops."
Here are EWG's updated lists for 2013:
Dirty Dozen:
- Apples
- Celery
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Cucmbers
- Hot Peppers
- Nectarines
- Peaches
- Potatoes
- Spinach
- Strawberries
- Bell Peppers
Plus: - Kale/Collard Green
- Summer Squash
- Asparagus
- Avocados
- Cabbage
- Cantaloupe
- Corn
- Eggplant
- Grapefruit
- Kiwi
- Mangoes
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Papayas
- Pineapples
- Sweet Peas - frozen
- Sweet Potatoes
Jun 19, 2012
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has just released the 2012 Dirty Dozen list. This year there's a + because a couple of items have been added because of pesticide concerns. EWG's new Shopper's Guide to the Dirty ...
Jun 13, 2011
EWG research has found that people who eat five fruits and vegetables a day from the Dirty Dozen list consume an average of 10 pesticides a day. Those who eat from the 15 least contaminated conventionally-grown fruits .
Apr 28, 2010
EWG research has found that people who eat five fruits and vegetables a day from the Dirty Dozen list consume an average of 10 pesticides a day. Those who eat from the 15 least contaminated conventionally-grown fruits ...
Aug 03, 2010
From my perspective, what's most newsworthy about the news from CR is the immateriality of the supplements in question, a so-called “dirty dozen.” Colloidal silver? Kava? Coltsfoot? These are not mainstream supplement ...
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Not that it is a personal annoyance, its more like one huge road block put in your path because other people's ignorance can really harm your health.
I think it is strange in a Jim Morrison kind of way that some get turned into celebrities by the media not really based on out come but because they are on TV or they get interviewed by someone else in the TV spotlight.
Just because someone is on TV really does not mean they are an expert in what they plie on their show. Remember that every show has sponsors and producers. If the recommend something it does not really mean it is effective or effective for you. All it is is mass marketing. And where are you when that suggestion fails you?
Its also like aggregator web sites. They fill their pages with info taken from other sources, make it look as if this was original material, and never give you and thing to assure you it might be bogus while trying to make it look like the latest hot new discovery or cure.
Thinking of something Dannion Brinkley said not too long ago about how he believes that the it is through healthcare that the globalists will find the key to controlling the world.
If you accept Dannion's premise then it won't surprise you when I suggest how crazy it is to find too loud Jillian Michaels on "Everyday Health" as one of their 'talking heads'.
And to me it is even crazier to think she has an interview with David Agus MD about cancer.
Now mind you, I do have to agree with him on the failure of the establishment on the issue of prevention.
Agus states: " ... we can win the war on cancer — but not the way we’re fighting it now.“We’ve made almost no impact on making people live longer with cancer,” he says in an interview ... noting that the death rate is down only 8 percent over the past six decades.Part of the problem, ..., is the way we think about the disease. “Instead of just trying to shrink the cancer, which buys a little bit of time, I want to change the entire state of your body. But I know, as a cancer doctor, I’m not that good. And I know that I lose two or three patients a week — and I don’t want to do that anymore.”The solution, he explains, is not to treat the disease but to stop it from happening in the first place. “Most cancers are preventable. We’ve got to take aggressive stances in that regard.”He goes on to tell you however, to ditch your vitamins and get your nutrients from food.And this is where we part ways. The parting is of course because clearly Agus has failed to do the research that proves, even if it is organic, the nutrient level in food has diminished over the years. It is worse for products grown in commercial agriculture.
I of course support organic and buying local but I also know that not everyone can afford this. And so what does Agus offer you if you fall in the less affluent part of our culture?
Not much.
But our Food Cleansing Healthy Handout does and it is an inexpensive way to make food healthier.
And being that we believe in supplements, the correct choices of supplements so that it isn't a one size fits all, but a targeted approach to regaining your health. The science on supplements supports my position, even for cancer. Maybe something will change some day for Agus and he will see the light.
Let's hope, and work to prove Dannion wrong.
If you are looking for conscientious help in the area of supplements for health consider Health Forensics.
Read more: confusion about supplements here.
