Tag Archives: norfolk

Real bread: a slice from the archives

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: December 11, 2008

A simple approach to real bread – the best ingredients, the simplest of recipes and plenty of time are all it takes to make good, honest English bread.

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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, fish, food on the web, fruit, meme, mushrooms, scotland, Suffolk | 7 Comments

The yellowing countryside

By Nick Saltmarsh | Published: April 5, 2007

No crop dominates the British arable landscape quite like rapeseed (Brassica napus, also known as oilseed rape, the edible variety as canola).
From the very beginning of April, previously mundane green fields of this member of the cabbage and turnip family suddenly erupt into luminous flower.
Across lowland England, great swathes of countryside are painted yellow. [...]

Posted in food from the farm | Also tagged British, crops, england, food in season, landscape, oil, provenance, rapeseed, Suffolk | 12 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 rise [...]