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Tagged for a blog meme: the Fantastic Four
My answers to the Fantastic Four blog meme questions Continue reading
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Food in season in 1861
What was in season 146 years ago? Here's Mrs Beeton's list of Things in Season in April
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Rapeseed, a golden oil from yellow fields
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. Continue reading
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Understanding identification marks
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 somewhere on the packaging. This example is from a Tesco own-label apple turnover. What is it… Continue readingPosted in food from where? Also tagged abattoir, apples, cheese, code, dairy, food from where?, identification, meat, milk, number, provenance, search Leave a comment
A fungus on the retail landscape
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… Continue reading
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