Tag Archives: fish

Tagged for a blog meme: the Fantastic Four

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: August 16, 2007

My answers to the Fantastic Four blog meme questions

Posted in food on the web | Also tagged england, food on the web, fruit, meme, mushrooms, norfolk, scotland, Suffolk | 7 Comments

Food in season in 1861

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: April 21, 2007

What was in season 146 years ago? Here’s Mrs Beeton’s list of Things in Season in April

Posted in food in season | Also tagged apples, British, food in season, fruit, meat, number | 7 Comments

Rapeseed, a golden oil from yellow fields

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: April 12, 2007

The intense gold of cold-pressed rapeseed oil (otherwise known as canola oil) reflects the yellowing spring fields of oilseed rape. A few farmers are now producing distinctive cold-pressed rapeseed oil, with clear provenance, from their oilseed crops, but the oil itself deserves more attention.

Posted in food in the UK | Also tagged British, crops, fruit, oil, provenance, rapeseed, Suffolk | 9 Comments

Understanding identification marks

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: April 2, 2007

To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes. What are those oval codes? If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this [...]

Posted in food from where? | Also tagged abattoir, apples, dairy, food from where?, identification, meat, milk, number, provenance | 8 Comments

A fungus on the retail landscape

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: March 23, 2007

Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation, yesterday compared the big retailers to invasive species like the Nile Perch and Japanese knotweed. Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea and related species) also springs to mind, its superficially attractive fruiting bodies sprouting up prolifically while insidiously killing off surrounding plants. Over the last few decades, the [...]