- Cooking by numbers: Ratio – ruhlman.com’s book about critical ingredient proportions, eg Know your dough: Ruhlman’s ratio chart for batters & doughs, eg bread 5 flour : 3 liquid; cookie 3 flour : 2 fat : 1 sugar (Ratio available from amazon.co.uk)
- Nice piece in Boston Globe re lessmeatarianism via @bittman #
- Selling real food: 10 innovative sustainable retailers (9 US – lots CSA, 1 UK – ubiquitous Jamie) from Every Kitchen Table #
- Chicken looking: RSPCA commends chicken producer Moy Park for giving birds windows & bales. A start but still far to go… more from Farmers’ Weekly #
- Soil Association condemns Hilary Benn’s decision not to ban pesticides known to kill honey bees more from Community Newswire via @SoilAssociation #
- Pig city: 40-storey “sty-scrapers” for urban pig production more from IPS and more pictures from MDRDV architects via http://agro.biodiver.se/ #
- EU to drop egg labelling legislation? Read more & take action at Compassion in World Farming via @OrganicLinker @ciwf
- A large shed: Hungry City author Carolyn Steel finally gets inside one of the UK’s 150 regional distribution centres more from the Hungry City blog and more from The Tracing Paper on RDCs
- No more Food from Britain! more from DEFRA
- Good graze: beef and lamb from animals fed on rich pasture better for health, biodiversity and flavour – Essex Univeristy study findings more from The Ecologist
- Fruit Forum tracks the advance of spring through fruit blossom, from cherry plum to late flowering apples
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